Bug 392911 (CVE-2007-4768) - CVE-2007-4768: pcre before 7.3 incorrect unicode in char class optimization
Summary: CVE-2007-4768: pcre before 7.3 incorrect unicode in char class optimization
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2007-4768
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 378411
Blocks: 307451
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Reported: 2007-11-20 19:51 UTC by Ville Skyttä
Modified: 2019-09-29 12:22 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: 7.3-3.fc7
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2008-03-06 16:36:53 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2007:1126 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Critical: flash-plugin security update 2007-12-18 23:52:53 UTC

Description Ville Skyttä 2007-11-20 19:51:58 UTC 
http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-4768

"Heap-based buffer overflow in Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library
before 7.3 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a
singleton Unicode sequence in a character class in a regex pattern, which is
incorrectly optimized."

F7 ships pcre 7.0.
Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2008-02-15 16:34:38 UTC 
pcre-7.3-3.fc7 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 7
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2008-02-19 03:20:19 UTC 
pcre-7.3-3.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 testing repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
 If you want to test the update, you can install it with 
 su -c 'yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update pcre'.  You can provide feedback for this update here: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/F7/FEDORA-2008-1842
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2008-03-06 16:36:28 UTC 
pcre-7.3-3.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
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