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Fedora 26 : pcre (2017-188135cba8)

high Nessus Plugin ID 101579

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This release fixes a crash when finding a Unicode property for a character with a code point greater than 0x10ffff in UTF-32 library while UTF mode is disabled and JIT mde enabled. It also fixes a buffer overlflow in pcretest tool when copying a string in UTF-32 mode.

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Solution

Update the affected pcre package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-188135cba8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 101579

File Name: fedora_2017-188135cba8.nasl

Version: 3.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/17/2017

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pcre, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:26

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/1/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/20/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7186