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CentOS Linux: CVE-2022-1587: Moderate: pcre2 security update (CESA-2022:5251)

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CentOS Linux: CVE-2022-1587: Moderate: pcre2 security update (CESA-2022:5251)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/16/2022
Created
07/16/2022
Added
07/05/2022
Modified
05/25/2023

Description

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was discovered in the PCRE2 library in the get_recurse_data_length() function of the pcre2_jit_compile.c file. This issue affects recursions in JIT-compiled regular expressions caused by duplicate data transfers.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-pcre2
  • centos-upgrade-pcre2-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-pcre2-debugsource
  • centos-upgrade-pcre2-devel
  • centos-upgrade-pcre2-syntax
  • centos-upgrade-pcre2-tools-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-pcre2-utf16
  • centos-upgrade-pcre2-utf16-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-pcre2-utf32
  • centos-upgrade-pcre2-utf32-debuginfo

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