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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.58726
Category:Mandrake Local Security Checks
Title:Mandrake Security Advisory MDKSA-2007:213 (pcre)
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing an update to pcre
announced via advisory MDKSA-2007:213.

Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered by Tavis Ormandy and
Will Drewry in the way that pcre handled certain malformed regular
expressions. If an application linked against pcre, such as Konqueror,
parses a malicious regular expression, it could lead to the execution
of arbitrary code as the user running the application.

Updated packages have been patched to prevent this issue.

Affected: Corporate 3.0, Multi Network Firewall 2.0

Solution:
To upgrade automatically use MandrakeUpdate or urpmi. The verification
of md5 checksums and GPG signatures is performed automatically for you.

http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=MDKSA-2007:213

Risk factor : High

CVSS Score:
6.8

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2007-1660
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Dec/msg00002.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Mar/msg00001.html
BugTraq ID: 26346
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26346
Bugtraq: 20071106 rPSA-2007-0231-1 pcre (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483357/100/0/threaded
Bugtraq: 20071112 FLEA-2007-0064-1 pcre (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/483579/100/0/threaded
Bugtraq: 20080416 VMSA-2008-0007 Moderate Updated Service Console packages pcre, net-snmp, and OpenPegasus (Google Search)
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490917/100/0/threaded
Cert/CC Advisory: TA07-352A
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-352A.html
Debian Security Information: DSA-1399 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1399
Debian Security Information: DSA-1570 (Google Search)
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1570
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200711-30.xml
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-02.xml
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-18.xml
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200801-19.xml
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200805-11.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:211
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:212
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:213
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198976
http://lists.vmware.com/pipermail/security-announce/2008/000014.html
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2007-November/msg00022.html
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A10562
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0967.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0968.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1063.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1065.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2008-0546.html
http://securitytracker.com/id?1018895
http://secunia.com/advisories/27538
http://secunia.com/advisories/27543
http://secunia.com/advisories/27547
http://secunia.com/advisories/27554
http://secunia.com/advisories/27598
http://secunia.com/advisories/27697
http://secunia.com/advisories/27741
http://secunia.com/advisories/27773
http://secunia.com/advisories/27776
http://secunia.com/advisories/27862
http://secunia.com/advisories/27965
http://secunia.com/advisories/28136
http://secunia.com/advisories/28406
http://secunia.com/advisories/28414
http://secunia.com/advisories/28658
http://secunia.com/advisories/28714
http://secunia.com/advisories/28720
http://secunia.com/advisories/29420
http://secunia.com/advisories/29785
http://secunia.com/advisories/30106
http://secunia.com/advisories/30155
http://secunia.com/advisories/30219
http://secunia.com/advisories/31124
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2007:062 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_62_pcre.html
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SA:2008:004 (Google Search)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html
SuSE Security Announcement: SUSE-SR:2007:025 (Google Search)
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_25_sr.html
https://usn.ubuntu.com/547-1/
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3725
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3790
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/4238
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0924/references
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1234/references
XForce ISS Database: pcre-character-class-dos(38273)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/38273
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