ports/121224: [patch] Add pcre vulnerability to security/vuxml

Fri Feb 29 16:30:02 UTC 2008

>Number:         121224
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       [patch] Add pcre vulnerability to security/vuxml
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          update
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Feb 29 16:30:02 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Nick Barkas
>Release:        FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p11 i386
>Organization:
Three Rings Design, Inc.
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD mail1.earth.threerings.net 6.2-RELEASE-p11 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p11 #0: Wed Feb 13 07:00:04 UTC 2008 root at i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386
>Description:
PCRE versions before 7.6 are vulnerable to arbitrary code execution via a buffer
overflow. The following patch adds this vulnerability to the VuXML document.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:

--- pcre_vuln.patch begins here ---
--- vuln.xml.orig	Wed Feb 27 17:41:13 2008
+++ vuln.xml	Fri Feb 29 08:19:53 2008
@@ -34,6 +34,35 @@
 
 -->
 <vuxml xmlns="http://www.vuxml.org/apps/vuxml-1">
+  <vuln vid="f9e96930-e6df-11dc-8c6a-00304881ac9a">
+    <topic>pcre -- buffer overflow vulnerability</topic>
+    <affects>
+      <package>
+        <name>pcre</name>
+        <range><lt>7.6</lt></range>
+      </package>
+    </affects>
+    <description>
+      <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+	<p>PCRE developers report:</p>
+	<blockquote cite="http://pcre.org/changelog.txt">
+	  <p>A character class containing a very large number of characters with
+	    codepoints greater than 255 (in UTF-8 mode, of course) caused a
+	    buffer overflow.</p>
+	</blockquote>
+      </body>
+    </description>
+    <references>
+      <cvename>CVE-2008-0674</cvename>
+      <bid>27786</bid>
+      <url>http://pcre.org/changelog.txt</url>
+    </references>
+    <dates>
+      <discovery>2008-01-28</discovery>
+      <entry>2008-02-29</entry>
+    </dates>
+  </vuln>
+
   <vuln vid="e8a6a16d-e498-11dc-bb89-000bcdc1757a">
     <topic>libxine -- buffer overflow vulnerability</topic>
     <affects>
--- pcre_vuln.patch ends here ---


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