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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200803-24:02
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Severity: High
Title: PCRE: Buffer overflow
Date: March 17, 2008
Updated: March 17, 2008
Bugs: #209067, #209293
ID: 200803-24:02
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Synopsis
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A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in PCRE, allowing
for the execution of arbitrary code and Denial of Service.
Background
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PCRE is a Perl-compatible regular expression library. GLib includes a
copy of PCRE.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 dev-libs/libpcre < 7.6-r1 >= 7.6-r1
2 dev-libs/glib < 2.14.6 >= 2.14.6
< 2.14.0
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2 affected packages on all of their supported architectures.
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Description
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PCRE contains a buffer overflow vulnerability when processing a
character class containing a very large number of characters with
codepoints greater than 255.
Impact
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A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a
specially crafted regular expression to an application making use of
the PCRE library, which could possibly lead to the execution of
arbitrary code or a Denial of Service.
Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.
Resolution
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All PCRE users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/libpcre-7.6-r1"
All GLib users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/glib-2.14.6"
References
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[ 1 ] CVE-2008-0674
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0674
Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-24.xml
Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.
License
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Copyright 2008 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).
The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5
