Detections
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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
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 31124
File Name: fedora_2008-1783.nasl
Version: 1.17
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 2/20/2008
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless 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