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.
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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory MDKSA-2007:212
http://www.mandriva.com/security/
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Package : pcre
Date : November 8, 2007
Affected: 2007.0, Corporate 4.0
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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
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Updated Packages:
Mandriva Linux 2007.0:
166533543e7c7f130755e08336355d97 2007.0/i586/libpcre0-6.7-1.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
3d3f5edda4e2159a591e8ef22739b13d 2007.0/i586/libpcre0-devel-6.7-1.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
2ad8c340a26577af98a6c7fa96c7b2d9 2007.0/i586/pcre-6.7-1.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
1fdb2c30cbd09d68c4d20e1f40bcba5c 2007.0/SRPMS/pcre-6.7-1.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm
Mandriva Linux 2007.0/X86_64:
1921703d5c8b1ff38d1fb7469732d8ad 2007.0/x86_64/lib64pcre0-6.7-1.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
dc0cf67b5645ca403122812762d2ca54 2007.0/x86_64/lib64pcre0-devel-6.7-1.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
75dbb4d4f6bd9085dfccbd5790ae0343 2007.0/x86_64/pcre-6.7-1.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
1fdb2c30cbd09d68c4d20e1f40bcba5c 2007.0/SRPMS/pcre-6.7-1.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm
Corporate 4.0:
ba12ba7238d88fec44fb702bcdbe4cb0 corporate/4.0/i586/libpcre0-6.7-0.1.20060mlcs4.i586.rpm
34a669bb27edf8b8bdcebeddc94ceb4d corporate/4.0/i586/libpcre0-devel-6.7-0.1.20060mlcs4.i586.rpm
0d3f9066239f33405b664316778cc200 corporate/4.0/i586/pcre-6.7-0.1.20060mlcs4.i586.rpm
ee7986f4e8a40f0aa2bb7b5fbd606075 corporate/4.0/SRPMS/pcre-6.7-0.1.20060mlcs4.src.rpm
Corporate 4.0/X86_64:
088fd86d1ba855e862b9b440eacf02a9 corporate/4.0/x86_64/lib64pcre0-6.7-0.1.20060mlcs4.x86_64.rpm
3a5513aefbd36970a5d3bd424437d185 corporate/4.0/x86_64/lib64pcre0-devel-6.7-0.1.20060mlcs4.x86_64.rpm
89180e167111259d4e936d98307f7b99 corporate/4.0/x86_64/pcre-6.7-0.1.20060mlcs4.x86_64.rpm
ee7986f4e8a40f0aa2bb7b5fbd606075 corporate/4.0/SRPMS/pcre-6.7-0.1.20060mlcs4.src.rpm
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