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Ubuntu: USN-5665-1 (CVE-2017-7186): PCRE vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-5665-1 (CVE-2017-7186): PCRE vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/19/2017
Created
10/12/2022
Added
10/11/2022
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

libpcre1 in PCRE 8.40 and libpcre2 in PCRE2 10.23 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation violation for read access, and application crash) by triggering an invalid Unicode property lookup.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpcre3
  • ubuntu-upgrade-ubuntu

References

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