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Fedora 8 : pcre-7.3-4.fc8 (2008-6111)
high Nessus Plugin ID 33415
Synopsis
The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.Description
- Fri Jul 4 2008 Tomas Hoger <thoger at redhat.com> - 7.3-4- Apply Tavis Ormandy's patch for CVE-2008-2371.
- Tue Feb 12 2008 Tomas Hoger <thoger at redhat.com> - 7.3-3
- Backport patch from upstream pcre 7.6 to address 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
- Try re-enabling make check again.
- Fri Nov 16 2007 Stepan Kasal <skasal at redhat.com> - 7.3-2
- Remove obsolete ``reqs'
- add dist tag
- update BuildRoot
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: 33415
File Name: fedora_2008-6111.nasl
Version: 1.16
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Fedora Local Security Checks
Published: 7/8/2008
Updated: 1/11/2021
Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.6
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.5
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
Patch Publication Date: 7/6/2008
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2008-2371