Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-129113

critical Nessus Plugin ID 381392

Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

- JSON::XS versions from 4.0_00 before 4.05 for Perl corrupt the incremental buffer length by chopping past its end in incr_skip after a top-level number. The incremental parser scans any run of digits, signs, dots and exponent markers as one number, but the decoder stops at the end of a valid number, so the parser keeps an offset into bytes it has not decoded. It then empties the buffer without clearing those bytes, and a later incr_parse call without new input reads them again and moves the offset past the end of the buffer. incr_skip, the documented recovery after an error, removes that many bytes and the buffer length wraps. A peer sending input such as 1-2 to an incr_parse consumer can make the next read of incr_text exit the process through perl's uncatchable out-of-memory path. (CVE-2026-129113)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-129113

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 381392

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2026_129113.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 11/14/2026

Updated: 11/14/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.54

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-129113

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9

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:U/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:12.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:13.0, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:14.0, p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:libjson-xs-perl

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/local_checks_enabled, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/14/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-129113