Advisories » MGASA-2014-0534

Updated pcre packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 19 Dec 2014
Modification date: 19 Dec 2014
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 4
CVE: CVE-2014-8964

Description

A flaw was found in the way PCRE handled certain malformed regular
expressions. This issue could cause an application linked against PCRE to
crash while parsing malicious regular expressions (CVE-2014-8964).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14789
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145843.html
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-8964

SRPMS

4/core

• pcre-8.33-2.1.mga4