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Fedora 43 : perl-Imager (2026-38f958d25a)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 327220

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 43 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-38f958d25a advisory.

 1.033
 - CVE-2026-14454: Fix mishandling of large EXIF IFD entry count values treated as negative numbers, could lead to allocation failure and program exit
 - JPEG: depend on Imager 1.033 for the EXIF fix
 - Fix thread context object reference count leak in bumpmap and bumpmap_complex filters
 - TIFF: fix a leak from processing the TIFF warnings buffer (introduced in Imager 1.021)

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-Imager package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-38f958d25a

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 327220

File Name: fedora_2026-38f958d25a.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/16/2026

Updated: 7/16/2026

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: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 58.1

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-2026-14454

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:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-imager, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:43

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/7/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/7/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-14454