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Fedora 45 : perl-Starlet (2026-7d9cd72397)

high Nessus Plugin ID 378025

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Fedora 45 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-7d9cd72397 advisory.

 Starlet 0.33 fixes several security issues in the Starlet code:
 * prevent excessive CPU use when parsing malformed chunk-size lines
 * bound read allocations for large Content-Length values
 * stream chunk data to the body buffer and limit chunk-size lines to 4096 bytes

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-Starlet package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-7d9cd72397

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 378025

File Name: fedora_2026-7d9cd72397.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/10/2026

Updated: 11/10/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:45, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-starlet

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/1/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/1/2026

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