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Fedora 44 : perl-Net-Statsd (2026-9c71664439)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 321731

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 a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-9c71664439 advisory.

 Metric names and values are now validated to ensure they do not contain characters below ASCII 32 (including newlines), colon (:) or pipe (|) characters that might allow metric injection. Offending calls now croak.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora 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

Update the affected perl-Net-Statsd package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-9c71664439

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 321731

File Name: fedora_2026-9c71664439.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/20/2026

Updated: 6/20/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 2.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-46739

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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-statsd

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/9/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/4/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-46739