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Medium ALAS2-2023-2082 2 CVEs

Moderate: pcre security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Jun 5, 2023 · Updated Jun 7, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2015-8394: 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-2015-8390: 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.

Fixed packages 5

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 pcre 0:8.32-17.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 pcre-debuginfo 0:8.32-17.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 pcre-devel 0:8.32-17.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 pcre-static 0:8.32-17.amzn2.0.3
Amazon Linux · 2 pcre-tools 0:8.32-17.amzn2.0.3

Vulnerabilities 2

  • Unscored —

    PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the [: and \\ substrings in character classes, which allows remote attackers to cause a den…

  • Unscored —

    PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the (?(<digits>) and (?(R<digits>) conditions, which allows remote attackers to cause a den…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2015-8390.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2015-8394.html