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Fedora 44 : perl-Starman (2026-2106e35a84)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 376828

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 multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-2106e35a84 advisory.

 Starman 0.4019 fixes several CVEs:
 Stream chunked request bodies to the temporary buffer instead of holding whole chunks in memory (CVE-2026-115824) Parse chunk-size lines in linear time with a 4 KiB length limit and strict syntax; malformed lines get 400 (CVE-2026-115822) Do not send a response body for HEAD requests or 1xx, 204 and 304 responses, on both the array and streaming paths (CVE-2026-115823) Limit how long a request body may take to arrive: --read-timeout (default 5 seconds) now also applies to each wait for more of the body, and the new --body-timeout option limits the total time (default 300 seconds; raise it or set it to 0 for slower uploads). Expiry gets 408 (CVE-2026-115817) Reject Transfer-Encoding other than chunked (400/501) and close the connection after a request with both Transfer-Encoding and Content-Length. Completes the fix for CVE-2026-40560


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 perl-Starman package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-2106e35a84

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 376828

File Name: fedora_2026-2106e35a84.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2026

Updated: 11/6/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.55

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-115823

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:H/A:N

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-starman

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/28/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/28/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-115817, CVE-2026-115822, CVE-2026-115823, CVE-2026-115824, CVE-2026-40560