A new PCRE vulnerability update is available for Ubuntu Linux. Here the announcement:
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-173-1 August 23, 2005
pcre3 vulnerability
CAN-2005-2491
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A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases:
Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog)
Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog)
The following packages are affected:
libpcre3
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.
Details follow:
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.
Updated packages for Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog):
Source archives:
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/p/pcre3/pcre3_4.5-1.1ubuntu=
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Architecture independent packages:
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amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon)
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i386 architecture (x86 compatible Intel/AMD)
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Updated packages for Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary Hedgehog):
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Size/MD5: 607 9556aec130df9a17c835293a4b569f53
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gz
Size/MD5: 476057 a58971177114a3b7a5da0e5a89a43c96
Architecture independent packages:
http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/p/pcre3/pgrep_4.5-1.1ub=
untu0.5.04_all.deb
Size/MD5: 776 e28108b81e46c153e9d13cb142a0ee55
amd64 architecture (Athlon64, Opteron, EM64T Xeon)
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1ubuntu0.5.04_amd64.deb
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