Date:         Thu, 29 Nov 2007 16:24:55 -0600
Reply-To:     Troy Dawson 
Sender:       Security Errata for Scientific Linux
              
From:         Troy Dawson 
Subject:      Security ERRATA for pcre on SL5.x i386/x86_64
Comments: To: "scientific-linux-errata@fnal.gov"
          

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

Flaws were discovered in the way PCRE handles certain malformed regular
expressions. If an application linked against PCRE, such as Konqueror,
parses 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)

SL 5.x

    SRPMS:
pcre-6.6-2.el5_1.7.src.rpm
    i386:
pcre-6.6-2.el5.7.i386.rpm
pcre-devel-6.6-2.el5.7.i386.rpm
    x86_64:
pcre-6.6-2.el5.7.i386.rpm
pcre-6.6-2.el5.7.src.rpm
pcre-6.6-2.el5.7.x86_64.rpm
pcre-devel-6.6-2.el5.7.i386.rpm
pcre-devel-6.6-2.el5.7.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson