GLSA-200508-17 : libpcre: Heap integer overflow
High Nessus Plugin ID 19537
Synopsis
The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
Description
The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200508-17 (libpcre: Heap integer overflow)
libpcre fails to check certain quantifier values in regular expressions for sane values.
Impact :
An attacker could possibly exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code by sending specially crafted regular expressions to applications making use of the libpcre library.
Workaround :
There is no known workaround at this time.
Solution
All libpcre users should upgrade to the latest version:
# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose '>=dev-libs/libpcre-6.3'