openSUSE 10 Security Update : pcre (pcre-4697)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 28285

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Specially crafted regular expressions could lead to a buffer overflow in the pcre library. Applications using pcre to process regular expressions from untrusted sources could therefore potentially be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code (CVE-2007-1659, CVE-2007-1660).

Solution

Update the affected pcre packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 28285

File Name: suse_pcre-4697.nasl

Version: 1.13

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: SuSE Local Security Checks

Published: 11/20/2007

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: 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:novell:opensuse:pcre, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pcre-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pcre-devel

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/9/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-1659, CVE-2007-1660

CWE: 119

Detections

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