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Gentoo: GLSA-201911-03 High: Oniguruma Code Execution Risks

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Calendar Grey November 7, 2019
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Several critical flaws identified in Oniguruma impacting Gentoo users; ensure you update to the most recent version.
Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Oniguruma, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.

Summary

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Oniguruma. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo high severity Denial of Service arbitrary execution Oniguruma

Resolution

All Oniguruma users should upgrade to the latest version: # emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/oniguruma-6.9.3"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2019-13224 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-13224 [ 2 ] CVE-2019-13225 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-13225

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201911-03
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Concerns

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users' machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

Severity: High
Title: Oniguruma: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: November 07, 2019
Bugs: #691832
ID: 201911-03

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Topics Covered

security advisory Gentoo high severity Denial of Service arbitrary execution Oniguruma

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Oniguruma, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.

Background

Oniguruma is a regular expression library.

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Affected Packages

------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-libs/oniguruma < 6.9.3 >= 6.9.3

Impact

===== A remote attacker, by enticing a user to process a specially crafted string using an application linked against Oniguruma, could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

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