Fedora 22: pcre Security Update 2015-11027
Summary
Perl-compatible regular expression library.
PCRE has its own native API, but a set of "wrapper" functions that are based on
the POSIX API are also supplied in the library libpcreposix. Note that this
just provides a POSIX calling interface to PCRE: the regular expressions
themselves still follow Perl syntax and semantics. The header file
for the POSIX-style functions is called pcreposix.h.
Update Information:
This release fixes two heap buffer overflows when compiling certain regular expressions: CVE-2015-3210 and CVE-2015-5073.
Change Log
* Wed Jul 1 2015 Petr Pisar
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1226918 - CVE-2015-3210 pcre: heap buffer overflow in pcre_compile2() / compile_regex() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1226918 [ 2 ] Bug #1237223 - CVE-2015-5073 pcre: heap buffer overflow in find_fixedlength() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1237223
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update pcre' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .