| Reporter | Title | Published | Views | Family All 115 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perl -- heap buffer overflow when transliterating non-ASCII bytes | 13 Apr 202500:00 | – | freebsd | |
| Security Bulletin: AIX is vulnerable to denial of service and possible code execution due to Perl (CVE-2024-8176, CVE-2024-56406) | 26 Jun 202515:03 | – | ibm | |
| CVE-2024-56406 | 13 Apr 202513:16 | – | alpinelinux | |
| Astra Linux – Vulnerability in Perl | 16 Jun 202511:28 | – | astralinux | |
| April Linux Patch Wednesday | 30 Apr 202523:34 | – | avleonov | |
| Azure Linux 3.0 Security Update: perl (CVE-2024-56406) | 20 Apr 202500:00 | – | nessus | |
| Debian dsa-5902 : libperl-dev - security update | 13 Apr 202500:00 | – | nessus | |
| EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : perl (EulerOS-SA-2025-1673) | 12 Jun 202500:00 | – | nessus | |
| EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : perl (EulerOS-SA-2025-1674) | 12 Jun 202500:00 | – | nessus | |
| EulerOS 2.0 SP13 : perl (EulerOS-SA-2025-1695) | 30 Jun 202500:00 | – | nessus |
#%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80900
##
# (C) Tenable, Inc.
##
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were
# extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2025-8445f115f6
#
include('compat.inc');
if (description)
{
script_id(235009);
script_version("1.1");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2025/04/30");
script_cve_id("CVE-2024-56406");
script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2025-8445f115f6");
script_name(english:"Fedora 40 : perl / perl-Devel-Cover / perl-PAR-Packer (2025-8445f115f6)");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"The remote Fedora 40 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the
FEDORA-2025-8445f115f6 advisory.
Fix CVE-2024-56406
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.");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-8445f115f6");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Update the affected 4:perl, perl-Devel-Cover and / or perl-PAR-Packer packages.");
script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:C");
script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:U/RL:OF/RC:C");
script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H");
script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2024-56406");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"No known exploits are available");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"false");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2025/04/08");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2025/04/14");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2025/04/30");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:40");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-Devel-Cover");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:perl-PAR-Packer");
script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
script_end_attributes();
script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks");
script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2025 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");
script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list");
exit(0);
}
include('rpm.inc');
if (!get_kb_item('Host/local_checks_enabled')) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
var os_release = get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/release');
if (isnull(os_release) || 'Fedora' >!< os_release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Fedora');
var os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:os_release);
if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, 'Fedora');
os_ver = os_ver[1];
if (! preg(pattern:"^40([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, 'Fedora 40', 'Fedora ' + os_ver);
if (!get_kb_item('Host/RedHat/rpm-list')) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);
var cpu = get_kb_item('Host/cpu');
if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH);
if ('x86_64' >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$" && 's390' >!< cpu && 'aarch64' >!< cpu) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, 'Fedora', cpu);
var pkgs = [
{'reference':'perl-5.38.4-508.fc40', 'release':'FC40', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE, 'epoch':'4'},
{'reference':'perl-Devel-Cover-1.40-9.fc40', 'release':'FC40', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE},
{'reference':'perl-PAR-Packer-1.063-3.fc40', 'release':'FC40', 'rpm_spec_vers_cmp':TRUE}
];
var flag = 0;
foreach package_array ( pkgs ) {
var reference = NULL;
var _release = NULL;
var sp = NULL;
var _cpu = NULL;
var el_string = NULL;
var rpm_spec_vers_cmp = NULL;
var epoch = NULL;
var allowmaj = NULL;
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['reference'])) reference = package_array['reference'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['release'])) _release = package_array['release'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['sp'])) sp = package_array['sp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['cpu'])) _cpu = package_array['cpu'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['el_string'])) el_string = package_array['el_string'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'])) rpm_spec_vers_cmp = package_array['rpm_spec_vers_cmp'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['epoch'])) epoch = package_array['epoch'];
if (!empty_or_null(package_array['allowmaj'])) allowmaj = package_array['allowmaj'];
if (reference && _release) {
if (rpm_check(release:_release, sp:sp, cpu:_cpu, reference:reference, epoch:epoch, el_string:el_string, rpm_spec_vers_cmp:rpm_spec_vers_cmp, allowmaj:allowmaj)) flag++;
}
}
if (flag)
{
security_report_v4(
port : 0,
severity : SECURITY_HOLE,
extra : rpm_report_get()
);
exit(0);
}
else
{
var tested = pkg_tests_get();
if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested);
else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, 'perl / perl-Devel-Cover / perl-PAR-Packer');
}
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