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Slackware Advisory SSA:2005-242-01 PCRE library
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
The remote host is missing an update as announced via advisory SSA:2005-242-01.
Insight
Insight
New PCRE packages are available for Slackware 8.1, 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, and -current to fix a security issue. A buffer overflow could be triggered by a specially crafted regular expression. Any applications that use PCRE to process untrusted regular expressions may be exploited to run arbitrary code as the user running the application. The PCRE library is also provided in an initial installation by the aaa_elflibs package, so if your system has a /usr/lib/libpcre.so.0 symlink, then you should install this updated package even if the PCRE package itself is not installed on the system.
Solution
Solution
Upgrade to the new package(s).