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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.58982
Category:Red Hat Local Security Checks
Title:RedHat Security Advisory RHSA-2007:1052
Summary:NOSUMMARY
Description:Description:

The remote host is missing updates announced in
advisory RHSA-2007:1052.

PCRE is a Perl-compatible regular expression library.

Flaws were found in the way PCRE handles certain malformed regular
expressions. If an application linked against PCRE, such as Konqueror,
parses a malicious regular expression, it may be possible to run arbitrary
code as the user running the application. (CVE-2006-7224)

Users of PCRE are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
contain a backported patch to correct these issues.

Solution:
Please note that this update is available via
Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network, launch the Red
Hat Update Agent with the following command: up2date

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2007-1052.html
http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical

Risk factor : High

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2006-7224
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