openSUSE 10 Security Update : pcre (pcre-4980)

high Nessus Plugin ID 31091

Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

Specially crafted regular expressions could lead to a buffer overflow in the pcre library. Applications using pcre to process regular expressions from untrusted sources could therefore potentially be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code.

Solution

Update the affected pcre packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 31091

File Name: suse_pcre-4980.nasl

Version: 1.9

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 2/14/2008

Updated: 1/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pcre, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pcre-32bit, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:pcre-devel, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:10.3

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Patch Publication Date: 2/7/2008