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RHEL 8 : perl:5.32 (RHSA-2026:48225)

high Nessus Plugin ID 330831

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for perl:5.32.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:48225 advisory.

 Perl is a high-level programming language that is commonly used for system administration utilities and web programming.

 Security Fix(es):

 * perl-Archive-Tar: perl-Archive-Tar: Denial of Service via crafted tar header with large entry size (CVE-2026-9538)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 RHEL perl:5.32 package based on the guidance in RHSA-2026:48225.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:48225

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2481315

http://www.nessus.org/u?4ca1d919

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 330831

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-48225.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/30/2026

Updated: 7/30/2026

Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.73

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-9538

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_eus:8.10, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-algorithm-diff, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-archive-tar, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-archive-zip, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-attribute-handlers, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-autodie, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-autoloader, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-autosplit, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-autouse, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-b, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-base, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-benchmark, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-bignum, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-blib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-carp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-class-struct, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-compress-bzip2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-compress-raw-bzip2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-compress-raw-lzma, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-compress-raw-zlib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-config-extensions, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-config-perl-v, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-constant, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-cpan-distnameinfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-cpan-meta-requirements, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-cpan-meta-yaml, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-cpan-meta, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-cpan, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-data-dumper, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-data-optlist, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-data-section, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-db_file, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-dbm_filter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-debugger, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-deprecate, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-devel-peek, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-devel-ppport, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-devel-selfstubber, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-devel-size, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-diagnostics, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-digest-md5, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-digest-sha, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-digest, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-dirhandle, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-dumpvalue, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-dynaloader, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-encode-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-encode-locale, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-encode, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-encoding-warnings, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-encoding, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-english, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-env, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-errno, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-experimental, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-exporter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-extutils-cbuilder, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-extutils-command, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-extutils-constant, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-extutils-embed, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-extutils-install, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-extutils-makemaker, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-extutils-manifest, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-extutils-miniperl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-extutils-mm-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-extutils-parsexs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-fcntl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-fedora-vsp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-fields, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-file-basename, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-file-compare, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-file-copy, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-file-dosglob, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-file-fetch, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-file-find, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-file-homedir, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-file-path, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-file-stat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-file-temp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-file-which, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-filecache, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-filehandle, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-filetest, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-filter-simple, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-filter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-findbin, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-gdbm_file, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-generators, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-getopt-long, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-getopt-std, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-hash-util-fieldhash, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-hash-util, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-homedir, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-http-tiny, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-i18n-collate, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-i18n-langinfo, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-i18n-langtags, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-if, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-importer, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-inc-latest, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-interpreter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-io-compress-lzma, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-io-compress, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-io-socket-ip, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-io-zlib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-io, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-ipc-cmd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-ipc-open3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-ipc-system-simple, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-ipc-sysv, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-json-pp, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-less, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-lib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-libnet, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-libnetcfg, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-local-lib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-locale-maketext-simple, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-locale-maketext, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-locale, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-macros, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-math-bigint-fastcalc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-math-bigint, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-math-bigrat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-math-complex, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-memoize, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-meta-notation, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-mime-base64, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-module-build, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-module-corelist-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-module-corelist, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-module-load-conditional, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-module-load, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-module-loaded, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-module-metadata, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-mro-compat, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-mro, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-ndbm_file, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-net-ping, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-net, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-next, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-object-hashbase-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-object-hashbase, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-odbm_file, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-opcode, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-open, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-overload, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-overloading, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-package-generator, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-params-check, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-params-util, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-parent, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-pathtools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-perl-ostype, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-perlfaq, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-perlio-via-quotedprint, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-ph, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-pod-checker, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-pod-escapes, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-pod-functions, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-pod-html, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-pod-parser, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-pod-perldoc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-pod-simple, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-pod-usage, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-podlators, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-posix, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-safe, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-scalar-list-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-search-dict, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-selectsaver, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-selfloader, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-sigtrap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-socket, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-software-license, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-sort, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-storable, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-sub-exporter, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-sub-install, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-subs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-symbol, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-sys-hostname, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-sys-syslog, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-term-ansicolor, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-term-cap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-term-complete, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-term-readline, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-term-table, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-test-harness, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-test-simple, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-test, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-text-abbrev, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-text-balanced, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-text-diff, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-text-glob, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-text-parsewords, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-text-tabs%2bwrap, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-text-template, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-thread-queue, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-thread-semaphore, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-thread, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-threads-shared, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-threads, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-tie-file, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-tie-memoize, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-tie-refhash, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-tie, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-time-hires, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-time-local, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-time-piece, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-time, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-unicode-collate, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-unicode-normalize, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-unicode-ucd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-uri, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-user-pwent, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-utils, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-vars, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-version, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-vmsish, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/30/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/26/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-9538

CWE: 770

RHSA: 2026:48225