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Medium ALAS2023-2023-045 2 CVEs

Moderate: pcre2 security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Feb 17, 2023 · Updated Feb 22, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-1587: An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was discovered in the PCRE2 library in the get_recurse_data_length() function of the pcre2_jit_compile.c file. This issue affects recursions in JIT-compiled regular expressions caused by duplicate data transfers. CVE-2022-1586: An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was discovered in the PCRE2 library in the compile_xclass_matchingpath() function of the pcre2_jit_compile.c file. This involves a unicode property matching issue in JIT-compiled regular expressions. The issue occurs because the character was not fully read in case-less matching within JIT.

Fixed packages 12

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 pcre2 0:10.40-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 pcre2-debuginfo 0:10.40-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 pcre2-debugsource 0:10.40-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 pcre2-devel 0:10.40-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 pcre2-static 0:10.40-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 pcre2-syntax 0:10.40-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 pcre2-tools 0:10.40-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 pcre2-tools-debuginfo 0:10.40-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 pcre2-utf16 0:10.40-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 pcre2-utf16-debuginfo 0:10.40-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 pcre2-utf32 0:10.40-1.amzn2023.0.2
Amazon Linux · 2023 pcre2-utf32-debuginfo 0:10.40-1.amzn2023.0.2

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-1586.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-1587.html