============================================================================ Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2694-1 July 29, 2015 pcre3 vulnerabilities ============================================================================ A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives: - Ubuntu 15.04 - Ubuntu 14.04 LTS - Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Summary: PCRE could be made to crash or run programs if it processed a specially-crafted regular expression. Software Description: - pcre3: Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression Library Details: Michele Spagnuolo discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-8964) Kai Lu discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.04. (CVE-2015-2325, CVE-2015-2326) Wen Guanxing discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 15.04. (CVE-2015-3210) It was discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-5073) Update instructions: The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 15.04: libpcre3 2:8.35-3.3ubuntu1.1 Ubuntu 14.04 LTS: libpcre3 1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: libpcre3 8.12-4ubuntu0.1 After a standard system update you need to restart applications using PCRE, such as the Apache HTTP server and Nginx, to make all the necessary changes. References: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-2694-1 CVE-2014-8964, CVE-2015-2325, CVE-2015-2326, CVE-2015-3210, CVE-2015-5073 Package Information: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pcre3/2:8.35-3.3ubuntu1.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pcre3/1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pcre3/8.12-4ubuntu0.1