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Amazon Linux AMI : pcre (ALAS-2015-528)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 83880

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Synopsis

The remote Amazon Linux AMI host is missing a security update.

Description

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.

Solution

Run 'yum update pcre' to update your system.

See Also

https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2015-528.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 83880

File Name: ala_ALAS-2015-528.nasl

Version: 2.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/29/2015

Updated: 4/18/2018

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, 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:amazon:linux:pcre-tools, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:pcre-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:pcre, cpe:/o:amazon:linux, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:pcre-devel, p-cpe:/a:amazon:linux:pcre-static

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

Patch Publication Date: 5/27/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2014-8964

ALAS: 2015-528