ELSA-2007-0968 Critical: Enterprise Linux pcre security update
7
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
11/07/2007
07/25/2018
12/20/2011
04/11/2019
Description
Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.0 does not properly calculate sizes for unspecified "multiple forms of character class", which triggers a buffer overflow that allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code.
Solution(s)
- oracle-linux-upgrade-pcre
- oracle-linux-upgrade-pcre-devel
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