pcre3 vulnerabilities

29 March 2016

pcre3 vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 15.10
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

PCRE could be made to crash or run programs if it processed a specially-crafted regular expression.

Software Description

• pcre3 - Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression Library

Details

It was discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 15.10

libpcre3 - 2:8.35-7.1ubuntu1.3

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

libpcre3 - 1:8.31-2ubuntu2.2

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

libpcre3 - 8.12-4ubuntu0.2

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

After a standard system update you need to restart applications using PCRE, such as the Apache HTTP server and Nginx, to make all the necessary changes.

References

• CVE-2014-9769
• CVE-2015-2325
• CVE-2015-2326
• CVE-2015-2327
• CVE-2015-2328
• CVE-2015-3210
• CVE-2015-5073
• CVE-2015-8380
• CVE-2015-8381
• CVE-2015-8382
• CVE-2015-8383
• CVE-2015-8384
• CVE-2015-8385
• CVE-2015-8386
• CVE-2015-8387
• CVE-2015-8388
• CVE-2015-8389
• CVE-2015-8390
• CVE-2015-8391
• CVE-2015-8392
• CVE-2015-8393
• CVE-2015-8394
• CVE-2015-8395
• CVE-2016-1283
• CVE-2016-3191