Bug#778396: marked as done (Henry Spencer regular expressions (regex) library contains a heap overflow vulnerability)
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has caused the Debian Bug report #778396,
regarding Henry Spencer regular expressions (regex) library contains a heap overflow vulnerability
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Package: cups
Severity: important
Tags: security patch
The security team received a report from the CERT Coordination Center that the
Henry Spencer regular expressions (regex) library contains a heap overflow
vulnerability. It looks like this package includes the affected code at that's
the reason of this bug report.
The patch is available here:
http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blobdiff/4d133046c59a851141519d03553a70e903b3eefc..2841837793bd095a82f477e9c370cfe6cfb3862c:/lib/libc/regex/regcomp.c
Please, can you confirm if the binary packages are affected? Are stable and
testing affected?
More information, here:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/695940
https://guidovranken.wordpress.com/2015/02/04/full-disclosure-heap-overflow-in-h-spencers-regex-library-on-32-bit-systems/
A CVE id has been requested already and the report will be updated with it
eventually.
Cheers, luciano
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On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 03:28:56PM +0100, Luciano Bello wrote:
> Package: cups
> Severity: important
> Tags: security patch
>
> The security team received a report from the CERT Coordination Center that the
> Henry Spencer regular expressions (regex) library contains a heap overflow
> vulnerability. It looks like this package includes the affected code at that's
> the reason of this bug report.
The regex copy is only used when building on Windows. I double-checked by
removing the entire vcnet/regex directory and rebuilding cups.
Cheers,
Moritz
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