[SECURITY] Fedora 8 Update: pcre-7.3-3.fc8

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-1783
2008-02-19 02:49:05
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Name        : pcre
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 7.3
Release     : 3.fc8
URL         : http://www.pcre.org/
Summary     : Perl-compatible regular expression library
Description :
Perl-compatible regular expression library.
PCRE has its own native API, but a set of "wrapper" functions that are based on
the POSIX API are also supplied in the library libpcreposix. Note that this
just provides a POSIX calling interface to PCRE: the regular expressions
themselves still follow Perl syntax and semantics. The header file
for the POSIX-style functions is called pcreposix.h.

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Update Information:

This update addresses buffer overflow caused by a character class containing a
very large number of characters with codepoints greater than 255 (in UTF-8 mode)
- CVE-2008-0674, #431660    This issue may affect usages of pcre, when regular
expressions from untrusted sources are compiled.  Handling of untrusted data
using trusted regular expressions is not affected by this problem.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Feb 12 2008 Tomas Hoger <thoger at redhat.com> - 7.3-3
- Backport patch from upstream pcre 7.6 to address buffer overflow
  caused by "a character class containing a very large number of
  characters with codepoints greater than 255 (in UTF-8 mode)"
  CVE-2008-0674, #431660
- Try re-enabling make check again.
* Fri Nov 16 2007 Stepan Kasal <skasal at redhat.com> - 7.3-2
- Remove obsolete ``reqs''
- add dist tag
- update BuildRoot
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #431660 - pcre: buffer overflow via large UTF-8 character class
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431660
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