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Fedora 44 : perl / perl-Devel-Cover / perl-PAR-Packer / polymake (2026-475559cbb9)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 332083

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 44 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-475559cbb9 advisory.

 Update Perl to 5.42.3




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

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-475559cbb9

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 332083

File Name: fedora_2026-475559cbb9.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/4/2026

Updated: 8/4/2026

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: 58.17

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: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:44, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-devel-cover, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-par-packer, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:polymake

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/3/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/25/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-57432, CVE-2026-8376

FEDORA: 2026-475559cbb9

IAVA: 2026-A-0696