Fedora 22 : pcre-8.38-3.fc22 (2016-f5af8e27ce)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 89948

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

This release fixes a heap buffer overflow in handling of nested duplicate named groups with a nested back reference and a heap buffer overflow in pcretest causing infinite loop when matching globally with an ovector less than 2.

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=1295385

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1312782

http://www.nessus.org/u?14a14851

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 89948

File Name: fedora_2016-f5af8e27ce.nasl

Version: 2.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/16/2016

Updated: 1/11/2021

Dependencies: ssh_get_info.nasl

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:pcre, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:22

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

Patch Publication Date: 3/15/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2016-1283