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FreeBSD : pcre -- regular expression buffer overflow (b971d2a6-1670-11da-978e-0001020eed82)

high Nessus Plugin ID 21502

Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

The pcre library is vulnerable to a buffer overflow vulnerability due to insufficient validation of quantifier values. This could lead execution of arbitrary code with the permissions of the program using pcre by way of a specially crated regular expression.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt

http://www.nessus.org/u?83fb0098

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 21502

File Name: freebsd_pkg_b971d2a6167011da978e0001020eed82.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Published: 5/13/2006

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: 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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:pcre, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:pcre-utf8, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/26/2005

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/1/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-2491

BID: 14620