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RHEL 4 : pcre (RHSA-2007:0968)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 27646

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated pcre packages that correct two security flaws are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team.

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.

Solution

Update the affected pcre and / or pcre-devel packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2007-1660

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

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 27646

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2007-0968.nasl

Version: 1.22

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/6/2007

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pcre-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:pcre, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4.5, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/5/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/7/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-1660

CWE: 119

RHSA: 2007:0968