MiracleLinux 4 : perl-5.10.1-119.AXS4.1 (AXSA:2012-353:01)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 283947

Synopsis

The remote MiracleLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote MiracleLinux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the AXSA:2012-353:01 advisory.

Perl is a high-level programming language with roots in C, sed, awk and shell scripting. Perl is good at handling processes and files, and is especially good at handling text. Perl's hallmarks are practicality and efficiency. While it is used to do a lot of different things, Perl's most common applications are system administration utilities and web programming. A large proportion of the CGI scripts on the web are written in Perl. You need the perl package installed on your system so that your system can handle Perl scripts.
Install this package if you want to program in Perl or enable your system to handle Perl scripts.
Security issues fixed with this release:
CVE-2011-2939 Off-by-one error in the decode_xs function in Unicode/Unicode.xs in the Encode module before 2.44, as used in Perl before 5.15.6, might allow context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (memory corruption) via a crafted Unicode string, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
CVE-2011-3597 Eval injection in the Digest module before 1.17 for Perl allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary commands via the new constructor.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the MiracleLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 283947

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2012-353.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Family: Miracle Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 1/14/2026

Updated: 1/14/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-3597

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-module-build, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-module-load-conditional, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-archive-tar, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-libs, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-compress-raw-zlib, cpe:/o:miracle:linux:4, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-extutils-embed, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-io-zlib, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-digest-sha, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-module-load, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-cgi, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-extutils-cbuilder, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-extutils-parsexs, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-log-message-simple, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-io-compress-zlib, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-compress-zlib, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-module-corelist, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-cpan, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-ipc-cmd, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-devel, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-file-fetch, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-log-message, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-io-compress-base, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-core, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-extutils-makemaker, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-locale-maketext-simple, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-archive-extract, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-module-loaded, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:perl-cpanplus

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/MiracleLinux/release, Host/MiracleLinux/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/20/2012

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/29/2011

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2011-2939, CVE-2011-3597

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