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VPR Score: 5.9
Synopsis
The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.
Description
This version fixes a number of vulnerabilities that affect pcre and applications using the libary when accepting untrusted input as regular expressions or as part thereof. Remote attackers could have caused the application to crash, disclose information or potentially execute arbitrary code.
- Update to PCRE 8.39 FATE#320298 boo#972127.
- CVE-2015-3210: heap buffer overflow in pcre_compile2() / compile_regex() (boo#933288)
- CVE-2015-3217: pcre: PCRE Library Call Stack Overflow Vulnerability in match() (boo#933878)
- CVE-2015-5073: pcre: Library Heap Overflow Vulnerability in find_fixedlength() (boo#936227)
- boo#942865: heap overflow in compile_regex()
- CVE-2015-8380: pcre: heap overflow in pcre_exec (boo#957566)
- boo#957598: various security issues fixed in pcre 8.37 and 8.38 release
- CVE-2016-1283: pcre: Heap buffer overflow in pcre_compile2 causes DoS (boo#960837)
- CVE-2016-3191: pcre: workspace overflow for (*ACCEPT) with deeply nested parentheses (boo#971741)
Solution
Update the affected pcre packages.