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CentOS 4 : pcre (CESA-2007:1052)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 37163

Synopsis

The remote CentOS host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated pcre packages that correct security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.

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

[Updated 15 November 2007] Further analysis of these flaws in PCRE has led to the single CVE identifier CVE-2006-7224 being split into three separate identifiers and a re-analysis of the risk of each of the flaws. We are therefore updating the text of this advisory to use the correct CVE names for the two flaws fixed by these erratum packages, and downgrading the security impact of this advisory from critical to important. No changes have been made to the packages themselves.

PCRE is a Perl-compatible regular expression library.

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-2005-4872, CVE-2006-7227)

Users of PCRE are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct these issues.

Solution

Update the affected pcre packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?2bdbe91e

http://www.nessus.org/u?5c6aa607

http://www.nessus.org/u?c55d6f4a

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 37163

File Name: centos_RHSA-2007-1052.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/23/2009

Updated: 1/4/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:pcre-devel, cpe:/o:centos:centos:4, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:pcre

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/10/2007

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/31/2005

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2005-4872, CVE-2006-7227

BID: 26462

CWE: 119, 189

RHSA: 2007:1052