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Fedora 44 : perl-Net-CIDR-Lite (2026-6f3d2d0d82)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 314986

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 44 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-6f3d2d0d82 advisory.

 This update addresses some input validation issues:

 * Reject Unicode digits and trailing newlines in parser inputs (CVE-2026-45190)
 * Reject zero-padded CIDR masks (CVE-2026-45191)


Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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 perl-Net-CIDR-Lite package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-6f3d2d0d82

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 314986

File Name: fedora_2026-6f3d2d0d82.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/15/2026

Updated: 5/15/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-45191

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.7

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:44, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-net-cidr-lite

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/11/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/10/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-45190, CVE-2026-45191