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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory : pcre (MDVSA-2015:002)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 80383

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Synopsis

The remote Mandriva Linux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

Updated pcre packages fix security vulnerability :

A flaw was found in the way PCRE handled certain malformed regular expressions. This issue could cause an application linked against PCRE to crash while parsing malicious regular expressions (CVE-2014-8964).

Solution

Update the affected lib64pcre-devel, lib64pcre0 and / or pcre packages.

See Also

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0534.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 80383

File Name: mandriva_MDVSA-2015-002.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Published: 1/6/2015

Updated: 1/6/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64pcre-devel, cpe:/o:mandriva:business_server:1, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:pcre, p-cpe:/a:mandriva:linux:lib64pcre0

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/5/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8964

BID: 71206

MDVSA: 2015:002