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CentOS 7 : pcre (CESA-2015:0330)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 81890

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Synopsis

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

Description

Updated pcre packages that fix one security issue and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the References section.

PCRE is a Perl-compatible regular expression library.

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

This update also adds the following enhancement :

* Support for the little-endian variant of IBM Power Systems has been added to the pcre packages. (BZ#1123498, BZ#1125642)

All pcre users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue and add this enhancement.

Solution

Update the affected pcre packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?fe58769f

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 81890

File Name: centos_RHSA-2015-0330.nasl

Version: 1.7

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/18/2015

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: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2014-8964

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:pcre-devel, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:pcre-tools, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:pcre-static, 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: 3/17/2015

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/16/2014

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8964

RHSA: 2015:0330