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AlmaLinux 8 : perl (ALSA-2026:67162)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 345937

Synopsis

The remote AlmaLinux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote AlmaLinux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ALSA-2026:67162 advisory.

 * perl: Perl: Incorrect regular expression processing via large regular expressions (CVE-2026-13221)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the AlmaLinux 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 packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:67162

https://errata.almalinux.org/8/ALSA-2026-67162.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 345937

File Name: alma_linux_ALSA-2026-67162.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 9/15/2026

Updated: 9/15/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.3

Percentile: 96.59

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-13221

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:N/I:H/A:H

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:alma:linux:8, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::appstream, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::baseos, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::highavailability, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::nfv, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::powertools, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::realtime, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::resilientstorage, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::sap, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::sap_hana, cpe:/o:alma:linux:8::supplementary, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:perl-attribute-handlers, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:perl-devel-peek, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:perl-devel-selfstubber, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:perl-devel, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:perl-errno, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:perl-extutils-embed, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:perl-extutils-miniperl, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:perl-interpreter, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:perl-io-zlib, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:perl-io, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:perl-libnetcfg, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:perl-libs, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:perl-locale-maketext-simple, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:perl-macros, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:perl-math-complex, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:perl-memoize, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:perl-module-loaded, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:perl-net-ping, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:perl-open, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:perl-pod-html, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:perl-selfloader, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:perl-test, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:perl-tests, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:perl-time-piece, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:perl-utils, p-cpe:/a:alma:linux:perl

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/14/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/13/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-13221

CWE: 625

RHSA: 2026:67162