Fedora 8 : pcre-7.3-3.fc8 (2008-1783)

high Nessus Plugin ID 31124

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update addresses buffer overflow caused by a character class containing a very large number of characters with codepoints greater than 255 (in UTF-8 mode)

- CVE-2008-0674, #431660 This issue may affect usages of pcre, when regular expressions from untrusted sources are compiled. Handling of untrusted data using trusted regular expressions is not affected by this problem.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected pcre package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431660

http://www.nessus.org/u?820cca15

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 31124

File Name: fedora_2008-1783.nasl

Version: 1.17

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/20/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pcre, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:8

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/19/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2008-0674

BID: 27786

CWE: 119

FEDORA: 2008-1783