Debian: DSA-1499-1 Critical: PCRE Buffer Overflow Exploit Mitigation
debian
February 19, 2008
It was discovered that specially crafted regular expressions involving
codepoints greater than 255 could cause a buffer overflow in the PCRE
library (CVE-2008-0674).
Summary
For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in
version 4.5+7.4-2.
For the unstable distribution, thi problem has been fixed in version
7.6-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your pcre3 package.
Upgrade instructions
- --------------------wget url
will fetch the file for you
dpkg -i file.deb
will install the referenced file.
If you are using the apt-get package manager, use the line for
sources.list as given below:
apt-get update
will update the internal database
apt-get upgrade
will install corrected packages
You may use an automated update by adding the resources from the
footer to the proper configuration.
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 alias sarge
Size/MD5 checksum: 99934 750cb82053d0d184e96b6f2256b07259
Size/MD5 checksum: 883 6d7166721448553dfe9672bdbb6c75c2
Size/MD5 checksum: 1106897 de886b22cddc8eaf620a421d3041ee0b
Architecture independent packages:
Size/MD5 checksum: 764 f45e8c3460a8...
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