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[DSA800] DSA-800-1 pcre3

Vulnerability Assessment Summary
DSA-800-1 pcre3

Detailed Explanation for this Vulnerability Assessment

An integer overflow with subsequent buffer overflow has been detected
in PCRE, the Perl Compatible Regular Expressions library, which permits
a possible hacker to execute arbitrary code.
Since several packages link dynamically to this library you are
advised to restart the corresponding services or programs
respectively. The command &ldquo
apt-cache showpkg libpcre3&rdquo
will list
the corresponding packages in the "Reverse Depends:" section.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.4-1.1woody1.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.5-1.2sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 6.3-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libpcre3 package.

Solution : http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-800
Network Security Threat Level: High

Networks Security ID: 14620

Vulnerability Assessment Copyright: This script is (C) 2007 Michel Arboi

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