RHEL 6 : perl (RHSA-2011:0558)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 54593

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for perl.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 6 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2011:0558 advisory.

- perl-CGI, perl-CGI-Simple: CVE-2010-2761 - hardcoded MIME boundary value for multipart content, CVE-2010-4410 - CRLF injection allowing HTTP response splitting (CVE-2010-2761, CVE-2010-4410)

- perl: lc(), uc() routines are laundering tainted data (CVE-2011-1487)

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 RHEL perl package based on the guidance in RHSA-2011:0558.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 54593

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2011-0558.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 5/20/2011

Updated: 4/21/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.9

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2011-1487

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2010-4410

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-archive-extract, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-archive-tar, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-cgi, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-cpan, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-cpanplus, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-compress-raw-zlib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-compress-zlib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-digest-sha, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-extutils-cbuilder, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-extutils-embed, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-extutils-makemaker, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-extutils-parsexs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-file-fetch, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-io-compress-base, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-io-compress-zlib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-io-zlib, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-ipc-cmd, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-locale-maketext-simple, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-log-message, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-log-message-simple, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-module-build, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-module-corelist, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-module-load, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-module-load-conditional, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-module-loaded, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-module-pluggable, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-object-accessor, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-package-constants, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-params-check, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-parse-cpan-meta, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-pod-escapes, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-pod-simple, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-term-ui, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-test-harness, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-test-simple, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-time-hires, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-time-piece, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-libs, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-parent, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-suidperl, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:perl-version, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/19/2011

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/6/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2761, CVE-2010-4410, CVE-2011-1487

BID: 45145, 47124

RHSA: 2011:0558

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