Scientific Linux: Important PCRE Security Advisory for i386/x86_64

Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 08:26:17 -0600
Reply-To: Troy Dawson 
Sender: Security Errata for Scientific Linux
 
From: Troy Dawson 
Subject: Security ERRATA for pcre on SL4.x, SL3.x i386/x86_64
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Note: This security errata went out last friday, but I had messed up the
subject line.

Synopsis: Important: pcre security update
Issue date: 2007-11-29
CVE Names: CVE-2006-7225 CVE-2006-7226 CVE-2006-7228
 CVE-2006-7230 CVE-2007-1659 CVE-2007-1660

Flaws were discovered in the way PCRE handles certain malformed regular
expressions. If an application linked against PCRE, such as Konqueror,
parsed a malicious regular expression, it may have been possible to run
arbitrary code as the user running the application. (CVE-2006-7225,
CVE-2006-7226, CVE-2006-7228, CVE-2006-7230, CVE-2007-1660)

SL 3.0.x

 SRPMS:
pcre-3.9-10.4.src.rpm
 i386:
pcre-3.9-10.4.i386.rpm
pcre-devel-3.9-10.4.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
pcre-3.9-10.4.i386.rpm
pcre-3.9-10.4.x86_64.rpm
pcre-devel-3.9-10.4.x86_64.rpm

SL 4.x

 SRPMS:
pcre-4.5-4.el4_6.6.src.rpm
 i386:
pcre-4.5-4.el4_6.6.i386.rpm
pcre-devel-4.5-4.el4_6.6.i386.rpm
 x86_64:
pcre-4.5-4.el4_6.6.i386.rpm
pcre-4.5-4.el4.6.x86_64.rpm
pcre-devel-4.5-4.el4.6.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson