Oracle Linux 5 : Important: / perl (ELSA-2007-0966)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 67586

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Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2007-0966 advisory.

[5.8.5-36.el4_5.2.0.1]
- Added patch perl-5.8.5-OEL-mock-build.patch to disable test lib/Net/t/hostname.t, so that mock build succeeds

[5.8.5-36.el4.2]
- Resolves: bug#323791
- fix previous patch

[5.8.5-36.el4.1]
- Resolves: bug#323791
- fix regular expression UTF parsing errors

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux 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 and / or perl-suidperl packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 67586

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2007-0966.nasl

Version: 1.11

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Oracle Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 4/29/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2007-5116

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

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:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:perl-suidperl, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/6/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/7/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-5116

BID: 26350

RHSA: 2007:0966

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