ALAS-2023-1769


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-1769
Advisory Release Date: 2023-06-07 23:52 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-06-15 17:01 Pacific
Severity: Medium

Issue Overview:

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the interaction of lookbehind assertions and mutually recursive subpatterns, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror. (CVE-2015-8386)


Affected Packages:

glib2


Issue Correction:
Run yum update glib2 to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    glib2-devel-2.36.3-5.25.amzn1.i686
    glib2-2.36.3-5.25.amzn1.i686
    glib2-debuginfo-2.36.3-5.25.amzn1.i686
    glib2-fam-2.36.3-5.25.amzn1.i686

noarch:
    glib2-doc-2.36.3-5.25.amzn1.noarch

src:
    glib2-2.36.3-5.25.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    glib2-debuginfo-2.36.3-5.25.amzn1.x86_64
    glib2-fam-2.36.3-5.25.amzn1.x86_64
    glib2-2.36.3-5.25.amzn1.x86_64
    glib2-devel-2.36.3-5.25.amzn1.x86_64