Debian Security Advisory
DSA-1602-1 pcre3 -- buffer overflow
- Date Reported:
- 05 Jul 2008
- Affected Packages:
- pcre3
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-2371.
- More information:
-
Tavis Ormandy discovered that PCRE, the Perl-Compatible Regular Expression library, may encounter a heap overflow condition when compiling certain regular expressions involving in-pattern options and branches, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 6.7+7.4-4.
For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.
We recommend that you upgrade your pcre3 packages.
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcre3_6.7+7.4-4.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcre3_6.7+7.4-4.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcre3_6.7+7.4.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcre3_6.7+7.4-4.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcregrep_6.7+7.4-4_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcrecpp0_6.7+7.4-4_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3-dev_6.7+7.4-4_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3_6.7+7.4-4_alpha.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcrecpp0_6.7+7.4-4_alpha.deb
- AMD64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcrecpp0_6.7+7.4-4_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3_6.7+7.4-4_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3-dev_6.7+7.4-4_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcregrep_6.7+7.4-4_amd64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3_6.7+7.4-4_amd64.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcrecpp0_6.7+7.4-4_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcregrep_6.7+7.4-4_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3-dev_6.7+7.4-4_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3_6.7+7.4-4_arm.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcregrep_6.7+7.4-4_arm.deb
- HP Precision:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcrecpp0_6.7+7.4-4_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3-dev_6.7+7.4-4_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3_6.7+7.4-4_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcregrep_6.7+7.4-4_hppa.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3-dev_6.7+7.4-4_hppa.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcrecpp0_6.7+7.4-4_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3-dev_6.7+7.4-4_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcregrep_6.7+7.4-4_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3_6.7+7.4-4_i386.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3-dev_6.7+7.4-4_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3_6.7+7.4-4_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcregrep_6.7+7.4-4_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3-dev_6.7+7.4-4_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcrecpp0_6.7+7.4-4_ia64.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcregrep_6.7+7.4-4_ia64.deb
- Big-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3_6.7+7.4-4_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3-dev_6.7+7.4-4_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcrecpp0_6.7+7.4-4_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcregrep_6.7+7.4-4_mips.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3-dev_6.7+7.4-4_mips.deb
- Little-endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcrecpp0_6.7+7.4-4_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3-dev_6.7+7.4-4_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3_6.7+7.4-4_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcregrep_6.7+7.4-4_mipsel.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3-dev_6.7+7.4-4_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3_6.7+7.4-4_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3-dev_6.7+7.4-4_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcrecpp0_6.7+7.4-4_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcregrep_6.7+7.4-4_powerpc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3-dev_6.7+7.4-4_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3_6.7+7.4-4_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcrecpp0_6.7+7.4-4_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcregrep_6.7+7.4-4_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3-dev_6.7+7.4-4_s390.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcrecpp0_6.7+7.4-4_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3_6.7+7.4-4_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcregrep_6.7+7.4-4_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3-dev_6.7+7.4-4_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcrecpp0_6.7+7.4-4_sparc.deb
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcregrep_6.7+7.4-4_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.