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Amazon Linux AMI Security Advisory: ALAS-2018-1076
Advisory Release Date: 2018-09-05 20:42 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2018-09-06 22:03 Pacific
Severity:
Important
References:
CVE-2016-3191
Issue Overview:
The compile_branch function in pcre_compile.c in PCRE 8.x and pcre2_compile.c in PCRE2 mishandles patterns containing an (*ACCEPT) substring in conjunction with nested parentheses, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror, aka ZDI-CAN-3542.(CVE-2016-3191)
Affected Packages:
pcre
Issue Correction:
Run yum update pcre to update your system.
New Packages:
i686:
pcre-static-8.21-7.8.amzn1.i686
pcre-debuginfo-8.21-7.8.amzn1.i686
pcre-tools-8.21-7.8.amzn1.i686
pcre-devel-8.21-7.8.amzn1.i686
pcre-8.21-7.8.amzn1.i686
src:
pcre-8.21-7.8.amzn1.src
x86_64:
pcre-8.21-7.8.amzn1.x86_64
pcre-tools-8.21-7.8.amzn1.x86_64
pcre-debuginfo-8.21-7.8.amzn1.x86_64
pcre-devel-8.21-7.8.amzn1.x86_64
pcre-static-8.21-7.8.amzn1.x86_64