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High ALAS2023-2026-3269 4 CVEs

Important: pcre2 security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Oct 26, 2026 · Updated Oct 26, 2026

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-89160: PCRE2 before 10.48 has a pcre2_match out-of-bounds read during the PCRE2_MATCH_INVALID_UTF matching of an invalid UTF subject. CVE-2026-89156: PCRE2 before 10.48 has a pcre2_match out-of-bounds read after a JIT fallback when an attacker can provide invalid UTF data. CVE-2026-86145: PCRE2 before 10.48 allows a pcre2_dfa_match out-of-bounds write because reuse of a cached workspace block, in a recursive DFA matching workspace, lacks a size check (even though a newly allocated block, for the same purpose, does have a size check). This outcome requires an attacker-controlled regular expression, or a recursive pattern in conjunction with a small heap limit (this can be set through the API). CVE-2026-103111: A flaw was found in pcre2. When an application processes attacker-controlled regular expressions using certain Just-In-Time (JIT) compiler interfaces, an out-of-bounds write with arbitrary data can occur. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to achieve arbitrary code execution, corrupt memory, or cause a denial of service (DoS).

Fixed packages 12

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 pcre2 0:10.40-1.amzn2023.0.5
Amazon Linux · 2023 pcre2-debuginfo 0:10.40-1.amzn2023.0.5
Amazon Linux · 2023 pcre2-debugsource 0:10.40-1.amzn2023.0.5
Amazon Linux · 2023 pcre2-devel 0:10.40-1.amzn2023.0.5
Amazon Linux · 2023 pcre2-static 0:10.40-1.amzn2023.0.5
Amazon Linux · 2023 pcre2-syntax 0:10.40-1.amzn2023.0.5
Amazon Linux · 2023 pcre2-tools 0:10.40-1.amzn2023.0.5
Amazon Linux · 2023 pcre2-tools-debuginfo 0:10.40-1.amzn2023.0.5
Amazon Linux · 2023 pcre2-utf16 0:10.40-1.amzn2023.0.5
Amazon Linux · 2023 pcre2-utf16-debuginfo 0:10.40-1.amzn2023.0.5
Amazon Linux · 2023 pcre2-utf32 0:10.40-1.amzn2023.0.5
Amazon Linux · 2023 pcre2-utf32-debuginfo 0:10.40-1.amzn2023.0.5

Vulnerabilities 4

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-103111.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-86145.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-89156.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-89160.html