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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-14229
2015-08-27 17:56:49.068483
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Name        : pcre
Product     : Fedora 23
Version     : 8.37
Release     : 4.fc23
URL         : http://www.pcre.org/
Summary     : Perl-compatible regular expression library
Description :
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.

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Update Information:

This release fixes a heap overflow when compiling certain regular expressions
with named refecences. This release fixes buffer overflows when compiling
certain expressions.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1256449 - pcre: Heap Overflow in compile_regex()
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1256449
  [ 2 ] Bug #1250943 - pcre: heap buffer overflow with a crafted regular expression
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250943
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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 .

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https://fedoraproject.org/security/
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Fedora 23: pcre Security Update 2015-14229

August 27, 2015
This release fixes a heap overflow when compiling certain regular expressions with named refecences

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 a heap overflow when compiling certain regular expressions with named refecences. This release fixes buffer overflows when compiling certain expressions.

Change Log

References

[ 1 ] Bug #1256449 - pcre: Heap Overflow in compile_regex() https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1256449 [ 2 ] Bug #1250943 - pcre: heap buffer overflow with a crafted regular expression https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1250943

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 .

Severity
Name : pcre
Product : Fedora 23
Version : 8.37
Release : 4.fc23
URL : http://www.pcre.org/
Summary : Perl-compatible regular expression library

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