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Fedora 23 : pcre-8.38-1.fc23 (2015-994f0b3021)

high Nessus Plugin ID 89335

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This release fixes various bugs when compiling or matching expressions. It also fixes how pcregrep handles binary files. It also fixes a heap-based buffer overflow in pcre_exec() when ovector has size 1 (bug #1285415)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected pcre package.

See Also

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1285413

http://www.nessus.org/u?14cc360e

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 89335

File Name: fedora_2015-994f0b3021.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/4/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pcre, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:23

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

Patch Publication Date: 11/26/2015

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