Joey Hess
2005-Aug-30 14:28 UTC
[secure-testing-announce] [DTSA-10-1] New pcre3 packages fix buffer overflow
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Debian Testing Security Advisory DTSA-10-1 http://secure-testing.debian.net secure-testing-team@lists.alioth.debian.org Joey Hess August 29th, 2005 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Package : pcre3 Vulnerability : buffer overflow Problem-Scope : remote Debian-specific: No CVE ID : CAN-2005-2491 An integer overflow in pcre_compile.c in Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via quantifier values in regular expressions, which leads to a heap-based buffer overflow. For the testing distribution (etch) this is fixed in version 6.3-0.1etch1 For the unstable distribution (sid) this is fixed in version 6.3-1 This upgrade is recommended if you use pcre3. The Debian testing security team does not track security issues for then stable (sarge) and oldstable (woody) distributions. If stable is vulnerable, the Debian security team will make an announcement once a fix is ready. Upgrade Instructions - -------------------- To use the Debian testing security archive, add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-security-updates etch-proposed-updates/security-updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://secure-testing.debian.net/debian-security-updates etch-proposed-updates/security-updates main contrib non-free The archive signing key can be downloaded from http://secure-testing.debian.net/ziyi-2005-7.asc Before installing the update, please note that you will need to restart all daemons that link with libpcre3 for the security fix to be used. Either reboot your machine after the upgrade, or make a list of processes that are using libpcre3, and restart them after the upgrade. To generate the list, run this command before you upgrade: lsof /usr/lib/libpcre.so.3 To install the update, run this command as root: apt-get update && apt-get install libpcre3 For further information about the Debian testing security team, please refer to http://secure-testing.debian.net/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDFGqI2tp5zXiKP0wRAg2PAJ4wkYFgG68y0u4lZITnvx92xal96wCeK4E+ yy1NegwPktvyx6x0nScKlmU=twHD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----