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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2015-8386: Security patch for glib2 (ALAS-2023-1769)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2015-8386: Security patch for glib2 (ALAS-2023-1769)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/01/2015
Created
06/19/2023
Added
06/16/2023
Modified
06/16/2023

Description

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the interaction of lookbehind assertions and mutually recursive subpatterns, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-glib2

References

  • ALAS-2023-1769
  • CVE-2015-8386
  • USN-2943-1

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