news 28 Posted July 29, 2008 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [slackware-security] pcre (SSA:2008-210-09) New pcre packages are available for Slackware 12.0, 12.1, and -current to fix a security issue. More details about this issue may be found in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) database: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2371 Here are the details from the Slackware 12.1 ChangeLog: +--------------------------+ patches/packages/pcre-7.7-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz: Upgraded to pcre-7.7. Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team found a buffer overflow triggered when handling certain regular expressions. This could lead to a crash or possible execution of code as the user of the PCRE-linked application. For more information, see: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-2371 (* Security fix *) +--------------------------+ Where to find the new packages: +-----------------------------+ HINT: Getting slow download speeds from ftp.slackware.com? Give slackware.osuosl.org a try. This is another primary FTP site for Slackware that can be considerably faster than downloading directly from ftp.slackware.com. Thanks to the friendly folks at the OSU Open Source Lab (http://osuosl.org) for donating additional FTP and rsync hosting to the Slackware project! :-) Also see the "Get Slack" section on http://slackware.com for additional mirror sites near you. Updated package for Slackware 12.0: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.0/patches/packages/pcre-7.7-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz Updated package for Slackware 12.1: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-12.1/patches/packages/pcre-7.7-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz Updated package for Slackware -current: ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/slackware/l/pcre-7.7-i486-1.tgz MD5 signatures: +-------------+ Slackware 12.0 package: 30bf87a8e58d7dc8ece0df73ddbd1aec pcre-7.7-i486-1_slack12.0.tgz Slackware 12.1 package: a7d990fa0b1ff0c5eddc4592ee53bc72 pcre-7.7-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz Slackware -current package: feb0296bd7135808d4ed987204234f73 pcre-7.7-i486-1.tgz Installation instructions: +------------------------+ Upgrade the package as root: # upgradepkg pcre-7.7-i486-1_slack12.1.tgz +-----+ Slackware Linux Security Team http://slackware.com/gpg-key security ( -at -) slackware.com +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Share this post Link to post
