USN-547-1: PCRE vulnerabilities

Releases

• Ubuntu 7.10
• Ubuntu 7.04
• Ubuntu 6.10
• Ubuntu 6.06

Packages

• pcre3 -

Details

Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry discovered multiple flaws in the regular
expression handling of PCRE. By tricking a user or service into running
specially crafted expressions via applications linked against libpcre3,
a remote attacker could crash the application, monopolize CPU resources,
or possibly execute arbitrary code with the application's privileges.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 7.10

• libpcre3 - 7.4-0ubuntu0.7.10.1
• libpcrecpp0 - 7.4-0ubuntu0.7.10.1

Ubuntu 7.04

• libpcre3 - 7.4-0ubuntu0.7.04.1
• libpcrecpp0 - 7.4-0ubuntu0.7.04.1

Ubuntu 6.10

• libpcre3 - 7.4-0ubuntu0.6.10.1
• libpcrecpp0 - 7.4-0ubuntu0.6.10.1

Ubuntu 6.06

• libpcre3 - 7.4-0ubuntu0.6.06.1
• libpcrecpp0 - 7.4-0ubuntu0.6.06.1

After a standard system upgrade you need to reboot your computer to
effect the necessary changes.

Due to the large internal code changes needed to solve outstanding flaws,
it was not possible to backport all the upstream security fixes to the
earlier released versions. To address this, the pcre3 library has been
updated to the latest stable release (7.4), which includes fixes for
all known security issues. While the new version is ABI compatible,
efforts have been taken to maintain behavioral compatibility with the
earlier versions.

References

• CVE-2007-1662
• CVE-2007-1660
• CVE-2007-4766
• CVE-2007-1659
• CVE-2007-4768
• CVE-2007-1661
• CVE-2007-4767