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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.55158
Category:Ubuntu Local Security Checks
Title:Ubuntu USN-173-1 (pcre3)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to pcre3
announced via advisory USN-173-1.

A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:

Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog)
Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog)

The following packages are affected: libpcre3

A buffer overflow has been discovered in the PCRE, a widely used
library that provides Perl compatible regular expressions. Specially
crafted regular expressions triggered a buffer overflow. On systems
that accept arbitrary regular expressions from untrusted users, this
could be exploited to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of
the application using the library.

Solution:
The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to
version 4.5-1.1ubuntu0.4.10 (for Ubuntu 4.10), or 4.5-1.1ubuntu0.5.04
(for Ubuntu 5.04).

A standard system upgrade is NOT SUFFICIENT to effect the necessary
changes! If you can afford to reboot your machine, this is the easiest
way to ensure that all services using this library are restarted
correctly. If not, please manually restart all server processes (exim,
Apache, PHP, etc.). It is advised to also restart your desktop
session.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=USN-173-1

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
7.5

Cross-Ref: BugTraq ID: 15647
BugTraq ID: 14620
Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2005-2491
1014744
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014744
102198
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102198-1
14620
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14620
15647
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15647
16502
http://secunia.com/advisories/16502
16679
http://secunia.com/advisories/16679
17252
http://secunia.com/advisories/17252
17813
http://secunia.com/advisories/17813
19072
http://secunia.com/advisories/19072
19193
http://secunia.com/advisories/19193
19532
http://secunia.com/advisories/19532
20060401-01-U
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060401-01-U
21522
http://secunia.com/advisories/21522
22691
http://secunia.com/advisories/22691
22875
http://secunia.com/advisories/22875
604
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/604
ADV-2005-1511
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1511
ADV-2005-2659
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/2659
ADV-2006-0789
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/0789
ADV-2006-4320
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4320
ADV-2006-4502
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4502
APPLE-SA-2005-11-29
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302847
DSA-800
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-800
DSA-817
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-817
DSA-819
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-819
DSA-821
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-821
FLSA:168516
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427046/100/0/threaded
GLSA-200508-17
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200508-17.xml
GLSA-200509-02
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-02.xml
GLSA-200509-08
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-08.xml
GLSA-200509-12
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-12.xml
GLSA-200509-19
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-19.xml
HPSBMA02159
http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00786522
HPSBOV02683
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=130497311408250&w=2
HPSBUX02074
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428138/100/0/threaded
OpenPKG-SA-2005.018
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112606064317223&w=2
RHSA-2005:358
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-358.html
RHSA-2005:761
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-761.html
RHSA-2006:0197
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0197.html
SCOSA-2006.10
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.10/SCOSA-2006.10.txt
SSRT051251
SSRT061238
SSRT090208
SUSE-SA:2005:048
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_48_pcre.html
SUSE-SA:2005:049
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_49_php.html
SUSE-SA:2005:051
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=112605112027335&w=2
SUSE-SA:2005:052
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_52_apache2.html
TSLSA-2005-0059
http://lists.trustix.org/pipermail/tsl-announce/2005-October/000354.html
[httpd-cvs] 20190815 svn commit: r1048742 [2/4] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/vulnerabilities-httpd.xml security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.html
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/54a42d4b01968df1117cea77fc53d6beb931c0e05936ad02af93e9ac%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
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https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5df9bfb86a3b054bb985a45ff9250b0332c9ecc181eec232489e7f79%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
[httpd-cvs] 20200401 svn commit: r1058586 [2/4] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/vulnerabilities-httpd.xml security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.html
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0276683d8e1e07153fc8642618830ac0ade85b9ae0dc7b07f63bb8fc%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
[httpd-cvs] 20200401 svn commit: r1058587 [2/4] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/vulnerabilities-httpd.xml security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.html
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r8828e649175df56f1f9e3919938ac7826128525426e2748f0ab62feb%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1073139 [1/13] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/json/
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf6449464fd8b7437704c55f88361b66f12d5b5f90bcce66af4be4ba9%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1073139 [3/13] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/json/
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re895fc1736d25c8cf57e102c871613b8aeec9ea26fd8a44e7942b5ab%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1073140 [2/4] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/cvejsontohtml.py security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.html
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r2cb985de917e7da0848c440535f65a247754db8b2154a10089e4247b%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1073143 [2/3] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9e8622254184645bc963a1d47c5d47f6d5a36d6f080d8d2c43b2b142%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1073149 [1/13] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/ security/json/
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r9f93cf6dde308d42a9c807784e8102600d0397f5f834890708bf6920%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1073149 [5/13] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/ security/json/
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rafd145ba6cd0a4ced113a5823cdaff45aeb36eb09855b216401c66d6%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
[httpd-cvs] 20210330 svn commit: r1888194 [3/13] - /httpd/site/trunk/content/security/json/
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd65d8ba68ba17e7deedafbf5bb4899f2ae4dad781d21b931c2941ac3%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
[httpd-cvs] 20210606 svn commit: r1075470 [2/4] - in /websites/staging/httpd/trunk/content: ./ security/json/CVE-2020-13938.json security/vulnerabilities_13.html security/vulnerabilities_20.html security/vulnerabilities_22.html security/vulnerabilities_24.html
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5001ecf3d6b2bdd0b732e527654248abb264f08390045d30709a92f6%40%3Ccvs.httpd.apache.org%3E
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-216.pdf
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-223.pdf
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-081.htm
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-159.htm
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00021.html
http://www.php.net/release_4_4_1.php
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11516
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11516
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1496
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1496
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1659
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A1659
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:735
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A735
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