DSA-1602-1 pcre3 -- buffer overflow

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-1602-1 pcre3 -- buffer overflow

Date Reported:

05 Jul 2008

Affected Packages:

pcre3

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2008-2371.

More information:

Tavis Ormandy discovered that PCRE, the Perl-Compatible Regular Expression library, may encounter a heap overflow condition when compiling certain regular expressions involving in-pattern options and branches, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.

For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 6.7+7.4-4.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem will be fixed soon.

We recommend that you upgrade your pcre3 packages.

Fixed in:

Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 (etch)

Source:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcre3_6.7+7.4-4.dsc

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcre3_6.7+7.4-4.diff.gz

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcre3_6.7+7.4.orig.tar.gz

Alpha:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcregrep_6.7+7.4-4_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcrecpp0_6.7+7.4-4_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3-dev_6.7+7.4-4_alpha.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3_6.7+7.4-4_alpha.deb

AMD64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcrecpp0_6.7+7.4-4_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3_6.7+7.4-4_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3-dev_6.7+7.4-4_amd64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcregrep_6.7+7.4-4_amd64.deb

ARM:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcrecpp0_6.7+7.4-4_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcregrep_6.7+7.4-4_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3-dev_6.7+7.4-4_arm.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3_6.7+7.4-4_arm.deb

HP Precision:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcrecpp0_6.7+7.4-4_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3-dev_6.7+7.4-4_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3_6.7+7.4-4_hppa.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcregrep_6.7+7.4-4_hppa.deb

Intel IA-32:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcrecpp0_6.7+7.4-4_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3-dev_6.7+7.4-4_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcregrep_6.7+7.4-4_i386.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3_6.7+7.4-4_i386.deb

Intel IA-64:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3_6.7+7.4-4_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcregrep_6.7+7.4-4_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3-dev_6.7+7.4-4_ia64.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcrecpp0_6.7+7.4-4_ia64.deb

Big-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3_6.7+7.4-4_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3-dev_6.7+7.4-4_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcrecpp0_6.7+7.4-4_mips.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcregrep_6.7+7.4-4_mips.deb

Little-endian MIPS:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcrecpp0_6.7+7.4-4_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3-dev_6.7+7.4-4_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3_6.7+7.4-4_mipsel.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcregrep_6.7+7.4-4_mipsel.deb

PowerPC:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3_6.7+7.4-4_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3-dev_6.7+7.4-4_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcrecpp0_6.7+7.4-4_powerpc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcregrep_6.7+7.4-4_powerpc.deb

IBM S/390:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3_6.7+7.4-4_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcrecpp0_6.7+7.4-4_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcregrep_6.7+7.4-4_s390.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3-dev_6.7+7.4-4_s390.deb

Sun Sparc:

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3_6.7+7.4-4_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/pcregrep_6.7+7.4-4_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcre3-dev_6.7+7.4-4_sparc.deb

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/p/pcre3/libpcrecpp0_6.7+7.4-4_sparc.deb

MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.