7.5 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
An integer overflow with subsequent buffer overflow has been detected
in PCRE, the Perl Compatible Regular Expressions library, which allows
an attacker to execute arbitrary code.
Since several packages link dynamically to this library you are
advised to restart the corresponding services or programs
respectively. The command “apt-cache showpkg libpcre3” will list
the corresponding packages in the “Reverse Depends:” section.
For the old stable distribution (woody) this problem has been fixed in
version 3.4-1.1woody1.
For the stable distribution (sarge) this problem has been fixed in
version 4.5-1.2sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) this problem has been fixed in
version 6.3-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your libpcre3 package.