Advisories » MGASA-2015-0267

Updated pcre package fixes security vulnerability

Publication date: 05 Jul 2015
Modification date: 09 Jul 2015
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 5
CVE: CVE-2015-5073

Description

PCRE library is prone to a vulnerability which leads to Heap Overflow.
During subpattern calculation of a malformed regular expression, an offset
that is used as an array index is fully controlled and can be large enough
so that unexpected heap memory regions are accessed (CVE-2015-5073).
                

References

• https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16217
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/26/3
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-5073

SRPMS

5/core

• pcre-8.37-2.1.mga5