Gentoo Security Advisory GLSA 200508-17 (libpcre)

The remote host is missing updates announced in advisory GLSA 200508-17. OpenVAS Vulnerability Test $ Description: Auto generated from Gentoo's XML based advisory Authors: Thomas Reinke Copyright: Copyright c 2008 E-Soft Inc. http://www.securityspace.com Text descriptions are largely excerpted fr...

GLSA-200508-17 : libpcre: Heap integer overflow

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-200508-17 libpcre: Heap integer overflow libpcre fails to check certain quantifier values in regular expressions for sane values. Impact : An attacker could possibly exploit this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code by sending...