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 MDVSA-2008:030
http://www.mandriva.com/security/
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Package : pcre
Date : January 31, 2008
Affected: Corporate 3.0, Multi Network Firewall 2.0
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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-2005-4872
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-7225
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-7226
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-7227
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-7228
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-7230
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-1659
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Updated Packages:
Corporate 3.0:
6af12132e0e932020ca394cdcf3d3a06 corporate/3.0/i586/libpcre0-4.5-3.4.C30mdk.i586.rpm
dd9afe15698e99b37f934783762e366d corporate/3.0/i586/libpcre0-devel-4.5-3.4.C30mdk.i586.rpm
278b07fa59e68bdc1a50a117c48d1d31 corporate/3.0/i586/pcre-4.5-3.4.C30mdk.i586.rpm
c8c3d5ccea445fb8f4d70b71b0ca03df corporate/3.0/SRPMS/pcre-4.5-3.4.C30mdk.src.rpm
Corporate 3.0/X86_64:
a891898c4b21b2088f02ca0f6b769cf0 corporate/3.0/x86_64/lib64pcre0-4.5-3.4.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
4119de7999c3dc01965b3a285839262c corporate/3.0/x86_64/lib64pcre0-devel-4.5-3.4.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
060b66751095a700fe6cc121a423a6f1 corporate/3.0/x86_64/pcre-4.5-3.4.C30mdk.x86_64.rpm
c8c3d5ccea445fb8f4d70b71b0ca03df corporate/3.0/SRPMS/pcre-4.5-3.4.C30mdk.src.rpm
Multi Network Firewall 2.0:
234f4af314478d52e438785b3350f3d8 mnf/2.0/i586/libpcre0-4.5-3.4.M20mdk.i586.rpm
0bb7eab034f55e8d7704ef043646ea0a mnf/2.0/i586/libpcre0-devel-4.5-3.4.M20mdk.i586.rpm
8056c796cfe2fd4d51e25df9beb075da mnf/2.0/i586/pcre-4.5-3.4.M20mdk.i586.rpm
2d87fce9af8d81c91d86dc81c4fff97b mnf/2.0/SRPMS/pcre-4.5-3.4.M20mdk.src.rpm
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