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FreeBSD : pcre -- stack buffer overflow (7033b42d-ef09-11e5-b766-14dae9d210b8)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 90050

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Synopsis

The remote FreeBSD host is missing one or more security-related updates.

Description

Philip Hazel reports :

PCRE does not validate that handling the (*ACCEPT) verb will occur within the bounds of the cworkspace stack buffer, leading to a stack buffer overflow.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1791

http://www.nessus.org/u?c257a132

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 90050

File Name: freebsd_pkg_7033b42def0911e5b76614dae9d210b8.nasl

Version: 2.5

Type: local

Published: 3/21/2016

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:pcre, p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:pcre2, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info

Patch Publication Date: 3/21/2016

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/9/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-3191