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EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : pcre (EulerOS-SA-2016-1023)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 99786

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing multiple security updates.

Description

According to the versions of the pcre packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

 - Multiple flaws were found in the way PCRE handled malformed regular expressions. An attacker able to make an application using PCRE process a specially crafted regular expression could use these flaws to cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2015-8385, CVE-2016-3191, CVE-2015-2328, CVE-2015-3217, CVE-2015-5073, CVE-2015-8388, CVE-2015-8391, CVE-2015-8386)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected pcre packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?f95386c8

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 99786

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2016-1023.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Published: 5/1/2017

Updated: 12/22/2025

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.3

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 8.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-8391

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 9.3

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:U/RC:X

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2016-3191

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:pcre-devel, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:pcre, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

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

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/22/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-2328, CVE-2015-3217, CVE-2015-5073, CVE-2015-8385, CVE-2015-8386, CVE-2015-8388, CVE-2015-8391, CVE-2016-3191

BID: 75018, 75430