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- RHSA-2007:1059
RHSA-2007:1059: Important: pcre security update
First published: Thu Nov 29 2007(Updated: )
PCRE is a Perl-compatible regular expression library.<br>Flaws were discovered in the way PCRE handles certain malformed regular<br>expressions. If an application linked against PCRE, such as Konqueror,<br>parses a malicious regular expression, it may have been possible to run<br>arbitrary code as the user running the application.<br>(CVE-2006-7225, CVE-2006-7226, CVE-2006-7228, CVE-2006-7230)<br>Users of PCRE are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which<br>contain backported patches to resolve these issues.<br>Red Hat would like to thank Ludwig Nussel for reporting these issues.
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| redhat/pcre | <6.6-2.el5_1.7 | 6.6-2.el5_1.7 |
| redhat/pcre | <6.6-2.el5_1.7 | 6.6-2.el5_1.7 |
| redhat/pcre-devel | <6.6-2.el5_1.7 | 6.6-2.el5_1.7 |
| redhat/pcre-devel | <6.6-2.el5_1.7 | 6.6-2.el5_1.7 |
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Reference Links
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=383371
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=384761
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=384781
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=384801
- http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007:1059 (Advisory)
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