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Critical PCRE Update for Scientific Linux Addresses CVE-2006-7225

Calendar Nov 29, 2007 • User Avatar LinuxSecurity Advisories
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security advisory security issue malicious code pcre update Scientific Linux
Important: pcre security update 
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
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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