USN-2694-1: PCRE vulnerabilities

Ubuntu Security Notice USN-2694-1

29th July, 2015

pcre3 vulnerabilities

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

• Ubuntu 15.04
• Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Summary

PCRE could be made to crash or run programs if it processed a specially-crafted regular expression.

Software description

• pcre3 - Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression Library

Details

Michele Spagnuolo discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular
expressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications
using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-8964)

Kai Lu discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular
expressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications
using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.04.
(CVE-2015-2325, CVE-2015-2326)

Wen Guanxing discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular
expressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications
using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 15.04. (CVE-2015-3210)

It was discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular
expressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications
using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and 14.04 LTS.
(CVE-2015-5073)

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package version:

Ubuntu 15.04:

libpcre3 2:8.35-3.3ubuntu1.1

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS:

libpcre3 1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:

libpcre3 8.12-4ubuntu0.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: http://ift.tt/17VXqjU.

After a standard system update you need to restart applications using PCRE,
such as the Apache HTTP server and Nginx, to make all the necessary
changes.

References

CVE-2014-8964, CVE-2015-2325, CVE-2015-2326, CVE-2015-3210, CVE-2015-5073

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