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Mandriva: Updated pcre packages fix vulnerability Print E-mail
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Posted by Benjamin D. Thomas   
Mandrake 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.
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Mandriva Linux Security Advisory                         MDVSA-2008:030
 http://www.mandriva.com/security/
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 Package : pcre
 Date    : January 31, 2008
 Affected: Corporate 3.0, Multi Network Firewall 2.0
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 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.
 _______________________________________________________________________

 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
 _______________________________________________________________________
 
 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
 _______________________________________________________________________

 To upgrade automatically use MandrivaUpdate or urpmi.  The verification
 of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

 All packages are signed by Mandriva for security.  You can obtain the
 GPG public key of the Mandriva Security Team by executing:

  gpg --recv-keys --keyserver pgp.mit.edu 0x22458A98

 You can view other update advisories for Mandriva Linux at:

  http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories

 If you want to report vulnerabilities, please contact

  security_(at)_mandriva.com
 _______________________________________________________________________

 Type Bits/KeyID     Date       User ID
 pub  1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Mandriva Security Team
  
 
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