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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2007.211

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2007.211
Posted Nov 8, 2007
Authored by Mandriva | Site mandriva.com

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory - Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered by Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry in the way that pcre handled certain malformed regular expressions. If an application linked against pcre, such as Konqueror, parses a malicious regular expression, it could lead to the execution of arbitrary code as the user running the application.

tags | advisory, arbitrary, vulnerability
systems | linux, mandriva
advisories | CVE-2007-1659, CVE-2007-1660, CVE-2007-1661, CVE-2007-1662, CVE-2007-4766, CVE-2007-4767, CVE-2007-4768
SHA-256 | 6100aa32ba93ef797e786064d674594b640d02b982977ea5ec14502fb63992d8

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2007.211

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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2007:211
http://www.mandriva.com/security/
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Package : pcre
Date : November 8, 2007
Affected: 2007.1
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Problem Description:

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered by Tavis Ormandy and
Will Drewry in the way that pcre handled certain malformed regular
expressions. If an application linked against pcre, such as Konqueror,
parses a malicious regular expression, it could lead to the execution
of arbitrary code as the user running the application.

Updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue.
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References:

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1659
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1660
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1661
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1662
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4766
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4767
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-4768
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Updated Packages:

Mandriva Linux 2007.1:
e3eadb5dc3ae91ffc735a0021bb4c3b8 2007.1/i586/libpcre-devel-7.3-0.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
8eee92b33ed6f6be95cae33249242dfa 2007.1/i586/libpcre0-7.3-0.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
42e1ac0e8188b5f142e645c1ff6bb44d 2007.1/i586/pcre-7.3-0.1mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
a03dca7708aa437655a393b0fe66f3c0 2007.1/SRPMS/pcre-7.3-0.1mdv2007.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007.1/X86_64:
370f8de2c9166883cbbcb2968b0575ec 2007.1/x86_64/lib64pcre-devel-7.3-0.1mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
306b2a144a25e1025d4ed02f3878b9dc 2007.1/x86_64/lib64pcre0-7.3-0.1mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
29b00561151987446eaaa3f0aaac5684 2007.1/x86_64/pcre-7.3-0.1mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
a03dca7708aa437655a393b0fe66f3c0 2007.1/SRPMS/pcre-7.3-0.1mdv2007.1.src.rpm
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To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

All packages are signed by Mandriva for security. You can obtain the
GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories

If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

security_(at)_mandriva.com
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Type Bits/KeyID Date User ID
pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
<security*mandriva.com>
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