Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-2082
Advisory Release Date: 2023-06-05 16:39 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-06-07 22:37 Pacific
PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the [: and \ substrings in character classes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror. (CVE-2015-8390)
PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the (?(<digits>) and (?(R<digits>) conditions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror. (CVE-2015-8394)
Affected Packages:
pcre
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update pcre to update your system.
aarch64:
pcre-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
pcre-devel-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
pcre-static-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
pcre-tools-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
pcre-debuginfo-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.aarch64
i686:
pcre-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.i686
pcre-devel-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.i686
pcre-static-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.i686
pcre-tools-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.i686
pcre-debuginfo-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.i686
src:
pcre-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.src
x86_64:
pcre-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
pcre-devel-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
pcre-static-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
pcre-tools-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.x86_64
pcre-debuginfo-8.32-17.amzn2.0.3.x86_64