Fedora 18 : perl-5.16.2-237.fc18 (2013-0659)

high Nessus Plugin ID 64368

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

Fix Locale::Maketext vulnerability allowing to cross-call functions from message catalogs (CVE-2012-6329). App::Cpan(3pm) manual page was included in two subpackages by mistake. This release keeps the file in perl-CPAN package only.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected perl package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=884354

http://www.nessus.org/u?f8c770f9

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 64368

File Name: fedora_2013-0659.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/31/2013

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.2

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

Temporal Vector: E:F/RL:OF/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:18

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/12/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/4/2013

Exploitable With

Metasploit (TWiki MAKETEXT Remote Command Execution)

Elliot (Foswiki 1.1.5 RCE)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2012-6329

BID: 56950

FEDORA: 2013-0659