pcre security update

2007-11-0518:41:23

CentOS Project

lists.centos.org

CVSS2

6.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

MEDIUM

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS

0.039

Percentile

92.1%

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CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2007:0968

PCRE is a Perl-compatible regular expression library.

Multiple flaws were found in the way pcre handles certain malformed regular
expressions. If an application linked against pcre, such as Konqueror,
parses a malicious regular expression, it may be possible to run arbitrary
code as the user running the application. (CVE-2007-1660)

Users of pcre are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain backported patches to correct these issues.

Red Hat would like to thank Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry for properly
disclosing these issues.

Merged security bulletin from advisories:
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-November/076526.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-November/076527.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-November/076551.html
https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-announce/2007-November/076552.html

Affected packages:
pcre
pcre-devel

Upstream details at:
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007:0968

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
CentOS4ia64pcre< 4.5-4.c4.1pcre-4.5-4.c4.1.ia64.rpm
CentOS4ia64pcre-devel< 4.5-4.c4.1pcre-devel-4.5-4.c4.1.ia64.rpm
CentOS4s390pcre< 4.5-4.c4.1pcre-4.5-4.c4.1.s390.rpm
CentOS4s390pcre-devel< 4.5-4.c4.1pcre-devel-4.5-4.c4.1.s390.rpm
CentOS4s390xpcre< 4.5-4.c4.1pcre-4.5-4.c4.1.s390x.rpm
CentOS4s390xpcre-devel< 4.5-4.c4.1pcre-devel-4.5-4.c4.1.s390x.rpm
CentOS4i386pcre< 4.5-4.el4_5.1pcre-4.5-4.el4_5.1.i386.rpm
CentOS4x86_64pcre< 4.5-4.el4_5.1pcre-4.5-4.el4_5.1.x86_64.rpm
CentOS4x86_64pcre-devel< 4.5-4.el4_5.1pcre-devel-4.5-4.el4_5.1.x86_64.rpm
CentOS4i386pcre< 4.5-4.el4_5.1pcre-4.5-4.el4_5.1.i386.rpm

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
CentOS	4	ia64	pcre	< 4.5-4.c4.1	pcre-4.5-4.c4.1.ia64.rpm
CentOS	4	ia64	pcre-devel	< 4.5-4.c4.1	pcre-devel-4.5-4.c4.1.ia64.rpm
CentOS	4	s390	pcre	< 4.5-4.c4.1	pcre-4.5-4.c4.1.s390.rpm
CentOS	4	s390	pcre-devel	< 4.5-4.c4.1	pcre-devel-4.5-4.c4.1.s390.rpm
CentOS	4	s390x	pcre	< 4.5-4.c4.1	pcre-4.5-4.c4.1.s390x.rpm
CentOS	4	s390x	pcre-devel	< 4.5-4.c4.1	pcre-devel-4.5-4.c4.1.s390x.rpm
CentOS	4	i386	pcre	< 4.5-4.el4_5.1	pcre-4.5-4.el4_5.1.i386.rpm
CentOS	4	x86_64	pcre	< 4.5-4.el4_5.1	pcre-4.5-4.el4_5.1.x86_64.rpm
CentOS	4	x86_64	pcre-devel	< 4.5-4.el4_5.1	pcre-devel-4.5-4.el4_5.1.x86_64.rpm
CentOS	4	i386	pcre	< 4.5-4.el4_5.1	pcre-4.5-4.el4_5.1.i386.rpm