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Fedora 44 : perl-Socket (2026-91d6cb99f7)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 322853

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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-2026-91d6cb99f7 advisory.

 2.041- BUGFIXES - Fix reuse of `STRLEN len` variable in pack_ip_mreq_source()



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 4:perl-Socket package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-91d6cb99f7

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 322853

File Name: fedora_2026-91d6cb99f7.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/26/2026

Updated: 6/26/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7

Percentile: 98.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-12087

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

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-socket

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/23/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/15/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-12087

FEDORA: 2026-91d6cb99f7

IAVA: 2026-A-0618