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Fedora 19 : pcre-8.32-12.fc19 (2014-16224)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 80129

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This release fixes CVE-2014-8964 (an unused memory usage on zero-repeat assertion condition)

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=1166147

http://www.nessus.org/u?9bead5e0

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 80129

File Name: fedora_2014-16224.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 12/22/2014

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pcre, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:19

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

Patch Publication Date: 12/4/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8964

FEDORA: 2014-16224