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openSUSE Security Update : pcre2 (openSUSE-2016-966)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 92974

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for pcre2 fixes the following issues :

 - pcre2 10.22 :

 - The POSIX wrapper function regcomp() did not used to support back references and subroutine calls if called with the REG_NOSUB option. It now does.

 - A new function, pcre2_code_copy(), is added, to make a copy of a compiled pattern.

 - Support for string callouts is added to pcre2grep.

 - Added the PCRE2_NO_JIT option to pcre2_match().

 - The pcre2_get_error_message() function now returns with a negative error code if the error number it is given is unknown.

 - Several updates have been made to pcre2test and test scripts

 - Fix CVE-2016-3191: workspace overflow for (*ACCEPT) with deeply nested parentheses (boo#971741)

 - Update to new upstream release 10.21

 - Improve JIT matching speed of patterns starting with + or *.

 - Use memchr() to find the first character in an unanchored match in 8-bit mode in the interpreter. This gives a significant speed improvement.

 - 10.20 broke the handling of [[:>:]] and [[:<:]] in that processing them could involve a buffer overflow if the following character was an opening parenthesis.

 - 10.20 also introduced a bug in processing this pattern:
 /((?x)(*:0))#(?'/, which was fixed.

 - A callout with a string argument containing an opening square bracket, for example /(?C$[$)(?<]/, was incorrectly processed and could provoke a buffer overflow.

 - A possessively repeated conditional group that could match an empty string, for example, /(?(R))*+/, was incorrectly compiled.

 - The Unicode tables have been updated to Unicode 8.0.0.

 - An empty comment (?#) in a pattern was incorrectly processed and could provoke a buffer overflow.

 - Fix infinite recursion in the JIT compiler when certain patterns /such as (?:|a|)(100)x/ are analysed.

 - Some patterns with character classes involving [: and \\ were incorrectly compiled and could cause reading from uninitialized memory or an incorrect error diagnosis.
 Examples are: /[[:\\](?<[::]/ and /[[:\\](?'abc')[a:].

 - A missing closing parenthesis for a callout with a string argument was not being diagnosed, possibly leading to a buffer overflow.

 - If (?R was followed by - or + incorrect behaviour happened instead of a diagnostic.

 - Fixed an issue when \p(Any) inside an xclass did not read the current character.

 - About 80 more fixes, which you can read about in the ChangeLog shipped with the libpcre2-8-0 package.

Solution

Update the affected pcre2 packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=971741

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 92974

File Name: openSUSE-2016-966.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/16/2016

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: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pcre2-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pcre2-tools, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pcre2-tools-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcre2-32-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcre2-32-0-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcre2-16-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcre2-posix1-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcre2-32-0-32bit, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pcre2-devel-static, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcre2-8-0, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcre2-32-0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcre2-posix1, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcre2-posix1-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pcre2-devel, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcre2-16-0-debuginfo-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcre2-16-0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcre2-8-0-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcre2-16-0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcre2-posix1-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcre2-8-0-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:libpcre2-8-0-debuginfo-32bit

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

Patch Publication Date: 8/11/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/17/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-3191