Fedora 7 : pcre-7.3-3.fc7 (2008-1842)

high Nessus Plugin ID 31363

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This update re-based pcre to version 7.3 as used in Fedora 8 to address multiple security issues that cause memory corruption, leading to application crash or possible execution of arbitrary code.
CVE-2007-1659 (#315871), CVE-2007-1661 (#392931), CVE-2007-1662 (#392921), CVE-2007-4766 (#392891), CVE-2007-4767 (#392901), CVE-2007-4768 (#392911), CVE-2008-0674 (#431660) This issue may affect usages of pcre, where regular expressions from untrusted sources are compiled. Handling of untrusted data using trusted regular expressions is not affected by these problems.

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.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 31363

File Name: fedora_2008-1842.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Fedora Local Security Checks

Published: 3/7/2008

Updated: 1/11/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pcre, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:7

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 3/6/2008

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-1659, CVE-2007-1661, CVE-2007-1662, CVE-2007-4766, CVE-2007-4767, CVE-2007-4768, CVE-2008-0674

BID: 27786

CWE: 119, 189

FEDORA: 2008-1842

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