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Oracle Linux 7 : pcre (ELSA-2016-1025)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 91072

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2016-1025 advisory.

 - Fix CVE-2015-2328 (infinite recursion compiling pattern with recursive reference in a group with indefinite repeat) (bug #1330508)
 - Fix CVE-2015-8385 (buffer overflow caused by named forward reference to duplicate group number) (bug #1330508)
 - Fix CVE-2015-8386 (buffer overflow caused by lookbehind assertion) (bug #1330508)
 - Fix CVE-2015-3217 (stack overflow caused by mishandled group empty match) (bug #1330508)
 - Fix CVE-2015-5073 and CVE-2015-8388 (buffer overflow for forward reference within backward assertion with excess closing parenthesis) (bug #1330508)
 - Fix CVE-2015-8391 (inefficient posix character class syntax check) (bug #1330508)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-1025.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 91072

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2016-1025.nasl

Version: 2.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 5/12/2016

Updated: 11/1/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-8391

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-3191

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:pcre-static, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:pcre, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:7, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:pcre-tools, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:pcre-devel

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/11/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/1/2015

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-2328, CVE-2015-3217, CVE-2015-5073, CVE-2015-8385, CVE-2015-8386, CVE-2015-8388, CVE-2015-8391, CVE-2016-3191

RHSA: 2016:1025