ALAS2-2023-2082

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-8390   CVE-2015-8394  

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the [: and \ substrings in character classes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror. (CVE-2015-8390) PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the (?(<digits>) and (?(R<digits>) conditions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror. (CVE-2015-8394)

ALAS2-2023-2082


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2082
Advisory Release Date: 2023-06-05 16:39 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-06-07 22:37 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the [: and \ substrings in character classes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror. (CVE-2015-8390)

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the (?(<digits>) and (?(R<digits>) conditions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror. (CVE-2015-8394)


Affected Packages:

pcre


Issue Correction:
Run yum update pcre to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    pcre-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    pcre-devel-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    pcre-static-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    pcre-tools-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
    pcre-debuginfo-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.aarch64

i686:
    pcre-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.i686
    pcre-devel-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.i686
    pcre-static-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.i686
    pcre-tools-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.i686
    pcre-debuginfo-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.i686

src:
    pcre-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.src

x86_64:
    pcre-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    pcre-devel-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    pcre-static-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    pcre-tools-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
    pcre-debuginfo-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.x86_64