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MiracleLinux 4 : rh-perl524-perl-5.24.0-380.AXS4 (AXSA:2018-2978:01)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 289743

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:2018-2978:01 advisory.

 * perl: heap write overflow in regcomp.c (CVE-2018-6797)
 * perl: heap read overflow in regexec.c (CVE-2018-6798)

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.

See Also

https://tsn.miraclelinux.com/en/node/9422

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 289743

File Name: miracle_linux_AXSA-2018-2978.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Published: 1/16/2026

Updated: 1/16/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-6797

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-perl524-perl-core, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-perl524-perl-bignum, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-perl524-perl-pod-html, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-perl524-perl-macros, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-perl524-perl-net-ping, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-perl524-perl-devel, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-perl524-perl-io, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-perl524-perl-time-piece, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-perl524-perl-libs, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-perl524-perl-math-complex, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-perl524-perl-tests, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-perl524-perl-devel-peek, cpe:/o:miracle:linux:4, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-perl524-perl-open, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-perl524-perl-attribute-handlers, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-perl524-perl, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-perl524-perl-extutils-embed, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-perl524-perl-errno, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-perl524-perl-memoize, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-perl524-perl-devel-selfstubber, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-perl524-perl-math-bigrat, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-perl524-perl-test, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-perl524-perl-locale-maketext-simple, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-perl524-perl-extutils-miniperl, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-perl524-perl-math-bigint-fastcalc, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-perl524-perl-utils, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-perl524-perl-io-zlib, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-perl524-perl-module-loaded, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-perl524-perl-libnetcfg, p-cpe:/a:miracle:linux:rh-perl524-perl-selfloader

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/24/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/16/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-6797, CVE-2018-6798