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Debian Security Update Fixes PCRE Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Title : Debian Security Update Fixes PCRE Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Advisory ID : FrSIRT/ADV-2005-1621
CVE ID : CVE-2005-2491
CWE ID : CWE-
Rated as : Moderate Risk

Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-09-02

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Technical Description

Debian has released updated packages to correct a vulnerability identified in PCRE. This flaw is due to an integer overflow error in "pcre_compile.c" when handling specially crafted regular expressions, which could be exploited by remote attackers (able to send regular expressions) to execute arbitrary commands with the privileges of the application using the vulnerable library. For additional information, see : FrSIRT/ADV-2005-1511

ChangeLog

2005-09-02 : Initial release

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