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Fedora 43 : perl-Plack (2026-a2bcaf6c4d)

high Nessus Plugin ID 376851

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-a2bcaf6c4d advisory.

 HTTP::Server::PSGI versions before 1.0056 for Perl allow a single request to crash the server by declaring a large Content-Length.


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-Plack package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-a2bcaf6c4d

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 376851

File Name: fedora_2026-a2bcaf6c4d.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: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.82

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-2026-115825

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:fedoraproject:fedora:43, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-plack

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: 10/25/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-115825