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FreeBSD Ports: pcre
Information
Severity
Severity
High
Family
Family
FreeBSD Local Security Checks
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
7.5
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Solution Type
Solution Type
Vendor Patch
Created
Created
15 years ago
Modified
Modified
7 years ago
Summary
The remote host is missing an update to the system as announced in the referenced advisory.
Insight
Insight
The following package is affected: pcre CVE-2008-0674 Buffer overflow in PCRE before 7.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression containing a character class with a large number of characters with Unicode code points greater than 255.
Solution
Solution
Update your system with the appropriate patches or software upgrades. http://pcre.org/changelog.txt http://www.vuxml.org/freebsd/f9e96930-e6df-11dc-8c6a-00304881ac9a.html