Advisories ยป MGASA-2020-0305

Updated pcre2 packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 31 Jul 2020
Modification date: 31 Jul 2020
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 7
CVE: CVE-2019-20454

Description

An out-of-bounds read was discovered in PCRE before 10.34 when the pattern
\X is JIT compiled and used to match specially crafted subjects in non-UTF
mode. Applications that use PCRE to parse untrusted input may be vulnerable
to this flaw, which would allow an attacker to crash the application. The
flaw occurs in do_extuni_no_utf in pcre2_jit_compile.c. (CVE-2019-20454)

References

SRPMS

7/core