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openSUSE Security Update : pcre (openSUSE-2015-353)
high Nessus Plugin ID 83392
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Synopsis
The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.Description
The regular expression library pcre was updated to 8.37 to fix three security issues and a number of bugs and correctness issues.The following vulnerabilities were fixed :
- CVE-2015-2325: Specially crafted regular expressions could have caused a heap buffer overlow in compile_branch(), potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary code. (boo#924960)
- CVE-2015-2326: Specially crafted regular expressions could have caused a heap buffer overlow in pcre_compile2(), potentially allowing the execution of arbitrary code. [boo#924961]
- CVE-2014-8964: Specially crafted regular expression could have caused a denial of service (crash) or have other unspecified impact. [boo#906574]
Solution
Update the affected pcre packages.See Also
https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=906574
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 83392
File Name: openSUSE-2015-353.nasl
Version: 2.4
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: SuSE Local Security Checks
Published: 5/13/2015
Updated: 1/19/2021
Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.8
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.8
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcrecpp0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcre16-0-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcreposix0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pcre-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcre16-0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcre1-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcre16-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcre1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcrecpp0-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pcre-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcrecpp0, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcreposix0-debuginfo-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:13.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcre16-0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pcre-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pcre-devel-static, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcre1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pcre-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcre1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcreposix0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcrecpp0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcreposix0
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list, Host/cpu
Patch Publication Date: 5/4/2015
Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/16/2014