ALAS2-2023-2107

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)

ALAS2-2023-2107


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2107
Advisory Release Date: 2023-06-21 19:11 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-06-29 19:46 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:

glib2


Issue Correction:
Run yum update glib2 to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    glib2-2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.6.aarch64
    glib2-devel-2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.6.aarch64
    glib2-fam-2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.6.aarch64
    glib2-static-2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.6.aarch64
    glib2-tests-2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.6.aarch64
    glib2-debuginfo-2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.6.aarch64

i686:
    glib2-2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.6.i686
    glib2-devel-2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.6.i686
    glib2-fam-2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.6.i686
    glib2-static-2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.6.i686
    glib2-tests-2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.6.i686
    glib2-debuginfo-2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.6.i686

noarch:
    glib2-doc-2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.6.noarch

src:
    glib2-2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.6.src

x86_64:
    glib2-2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.6.x86_64
    glib2-devel-2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.6.x86_64
    glib2-fam-2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.6.x86_64
    glib2-static-2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.6.x86_64
    glib2-tests-2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.6.x86_64
    glib2-debuginfo-2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.6.x86_64