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Amazon Linux 2 : perl, --advisory ALAS2-2026-3352 (ALAS-2026-3352)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 319818

Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux 2 host is missing a security update.

Description

The version of perl installed on the remote host is prior to 5.16.3-299. It is, therefore, affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALAS2-2026-3352 advisory.

 Buffer overflow in Perl_study_chunk (CVE-2026-8376)

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

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

Solution

Run 'yum update perl' or or 'yum update --advisory ALAS2-2026-3352' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com//AL2/ALAS2-2026-3352.html

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/faqs.html

https://explore.alas.aws.amazon.com/CVE-2026-8376.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 319818

File Name: al2_ALAS-2026-3352.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/8/2026

Updated: 6/8/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-8376

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:amazon:linux:perl-extutils-embed, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perl-cpan, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perl-module-loaded, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perl-core, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perl-macros, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perl-pod-escapes, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perl-devel, cpe:/o:amazon:linux:2, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perl-time-piece, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perl-package-constants, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perl-libs, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perl-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perl, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perl-object-accessor, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perl-extutils-install, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perl-locale-maketext-simple, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perl-tests, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perl-module-corelist, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perl-io-zlib, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:perl-extutils-cbuilder

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/8/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/25/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-8376