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Fedora 24 : pcre (2017-a8dc348834)

high Nessus Plugin ID 97339

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This release fixes pcregrep multi-line matching with --only-matching option, a crash when JIT-compiling some patterns (CVE-2017-6004) and a possible buffer overflow when formatting a pcregrep error message.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected pcre package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-a8dc348834

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 97339

File Name: fedora_2017-a8dc348834.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/23/2017

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pcre, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:24

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

Patch Publication Date: 2/22/2017

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/16/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-6004