ArchLinux: 201505-4: mariadb-clients: denial of service
Summary
A heap-based buffer overflow was found in the way PCRE handled certain malformed regular expressions. This issue could cause a crash while parsing malicious regular expressions related to an assertion that allows zero repeats.
Resolution
Upgrade to 10.0.18-1.
# pacman -Syu "mariadb-clients>=10.0.18-1"
The problems have been fixed upstream in version 10.0.18.
References
https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-10018-release-notes/ https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-8964
![Dist Arch](/images/distros/dist-arch.png)
Workaround
None.