Bug 430638 (CVE-2005-2491)

Summary:	CVE-2005-2491 pcre heap overflow
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	kasal, vdanen
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2005-2491
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Last Closed:	2010-12-22 21:13:14 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	166330, 166332, 166333, 166334, 166335, 168318, 430870
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Description Mark J. Cox 2008-01-29 09:37:13 UTC

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2005-2491 to the following vulnerability:

Integer overflow in pcre_compile.c in Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) before 6.2, as used in multiple products such as Python, Ethereal, and PHP, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via quantifier values in regular expressions, which leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.

References:

http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-216.pdf
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2005-223.pdf
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-081.htm
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2006-159.htm
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302847
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-800
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-817
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-819
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-821
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/427046/100/0/threaded
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-02.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200508-17.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-12.xml
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200509-19.xml
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/428138/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/428138/100/0/threaded
http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00786522
http://itrc.hp.com/service/cki/docDisplay.do?docId=c00786522
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-761.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0197.html
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=112606064317223&w=2
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-358.html
ftp://ftp.sco.com/pub/updates/OpenServer/SCOSA-2006.10/SCOSA-2006.10.txt
ftp://patches.sgi.com/support/free/security/advisories/20060401-01-U
http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-26-102198-1
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=bugtraq&m=112605112027335&w=2
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_48_pcre.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_49_php.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_52_apache2.html
http://lists.trustix.org/pipermail/tsl-announce/2005-October/000354.html
http://www.ethereal.com/appnotes/enpa-sa-00021.html
http://www.php.net/release_4_4_1.php
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14620
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15647
http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2005/1511
http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2005/2659
http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/0789
http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/4320
http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2006/4502
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:735
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1496
http://oval.mitre.org/repository/data/getDef?id=oval:org.mitre.oval:def:1659
http://securitytracker.com/id?1014744
http://secunia.com/advisories/17813
http://secunia.com/advisories/16502
http://secunia.com/advisories/16679
http://secunia.com/advisories/19072
http://secunia.com/advisories/19193
http://secunia.com/advisories/17252
http://secunia.com/advisories/19532
http://secunia.com/advisories/21522
http://secunia.com/advisories/22691
http://secunia.com/advisories/22875
http://securityreason.com/securityalert/604

Comment 1 Mark J. Cox 2008-01-29 09:38:07 UTC

See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=166335 for patch and more details

Comment 4 Vincent Danen 2010-12-22 02:40:20 UTC

This was addressed via:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 (RHSA-2005:358 (exim))
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 2.1 (RHSA-2005:761 (pcre))
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3 (RHSA-2005:761 (pcre))
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 (RHSA-2005:761 (pcre))
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 2.1 (RHSA-2006:0197 (python))
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 3 (RHSA-2006:0197 (python))
Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4 (RHSA-2006:0197 (python))