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Arch Linux Security Advisory: ASA-201505-4 Medium Risk mariadb-clients DoS

The package mariadb-clients before version 10.0.18-1 is vulnerable to denial of service. . Arch Linux Security Advisory ASA-201505-4 ======================================== Severity: Medium Date : 2015-05-08 CVE-ID : CVE-2014-8964 Package : mariadb-clients Type : denial of service Remote : Yes Link : https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/CVE Summary ====== The package mariadb-clients before version 10.0.18-1 is vulnerable to denial of service. Resolution ========= Upgrade to 10.0.18-1. # pacman -Syu "mariadb-clients> =10.0.18-1" The problems have been fixed upstream in version 10.0.18. Workaround ========= None. Description ========== A heap-based buffer overflow was found in the way PCRE handled certain malformed regular expressions. This issue could cause a crash while parsing malicious regular expressions related to an assertion that allows zero repeats. Impact ===== A remote attacker is able to cause an application crash leading to denial of service via malicious regular expressions. References ========= https://mariadb.com/docs/release-notes/community-server/old-releases/release-notes-mariadb-10-0-series/mariadb-10018-release-notes https://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2014-8964 . Ubuntu Security Notice USN-5303-1 addresses vulnerabilities in nginx. Users are encouraged to apply updates promptly to ensure system integrity.. Arch Linux, Mariadb Clients, Denial Of Service. . Severity: Medium. LinuxSecurity.com Team

May 08, 2015 •Medium ArchLinux