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Fedora 21 : pcre-8.35-14.fc21 (2015-14242)

high Nessus Plugin ID 85920

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This release fixes a heap overflow when compiling certain regular expressions with named refecences. This release fixes buffer overflows when compiling certain expressions.

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=1250943

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1256449

http://www.nessus.org/u?56e0bc62

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 85920

File Name: fedora_2015-14242.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 9/14/2015

Updated: 1/11/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:21, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pcre

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

Patch Publication Date: 9/11/2015

Reference Information

FEDORA: 2015-14242