Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: pcre security update

Updated pcre packages that correct two security flaws are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. PCRE is a Perl-compatible regular expression library. Multiple flaws were found in the way...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: pcre security update

Updated pcre packages that correct two security flaws are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. PCRE is a Perl-compatible regular expression library. Multiple flaws were found in the way...

Important: perl security update

5.8.5-36.el45.2.0.1 - Added patch perl-5.8.5-OEL-mock-build.patch to disable test lib/Net/t/hostname.t, so that mock build succeeds 5.8.5-36.el4.2 - Resolves: bug323791 - fix previous patch 5.8.5-36.el4.1 - Resolves: bug323791 - fix regular expression UTF parsing errors...

perl -- regular expressions unicode data buffer overflow

Red Hat reports: A flaw was found in Perl's regular expression engine. Specially crafted input to a regular expression can cause Perl to improperly allocate memory, possibly resulting in arbitrary code running with the permissions of the user running Perl...

CVE-2007-5715: Undefined Security Weakness

DenyHosts 2.6 processes OpenSSH sshd "not listed in AllowUsers" log messages with an incorrect regular expression that does not match an IP address, which might allow remote attackers to avoid detection and blocking when making invalid login attempts with a username not present in AllowUsers, as...

CVE-2003-1419: Improper Input Validation

Netscape 7.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via a web page with an invalid regular expression argument to the JavaScript reformatDate function...

Directory traversal

Directory traversal vulnerability in session.rb in Hiki 0.8.0 through 0.8.6 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in the session ID, which is matched against an insufficiently restrictive regular expression before it is used to construct a filename th...

CVE-2007-2836

Directory traversal vulnerability in session.rb in Hiki 0.8.0 through 0.8.6 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in the session ID, which is matched against an insufficiently restrictive regular expression before it is used to construct a filename th...

CVE-2007-2836

Directory traversal vulnerability in session.rb in Hiki 0.8.0 through 0.8.6 allows remote attackers to delete arbitrary files via directory traversal sequences in the session ID, which is matched against an insufficiently restrictive regular expression before it is used to construct a filename th...

mod_perl PerlRun denial of service

PerlRun.pm in Apache modperl before 1.30, and RegistryCooker.pm in modperl 2.x, does not properly escape PATHINFO before use in a regular expression, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service resource consumption via a crafted URI...

Design/Logic Flaw

blockhosts.py in BlockHosts before 2.0.3 does not properly parse daemon log files, which allows remote attackers to add arbitrary deny entries to the /etc/hosts.allow file and cause a denial of service by adding arbitrary IP addresses to a daemon log file, as demonstrated by logging in through ss...

CVE-2007-2765

blockhosts.py in BlockHosts before 2.0.3 does not properly parse daemon log files, which allows remote attackers to add arbitrary deny entries to the /etc/hosts.allow file and cause a denial of service by adding arbitrary IP addresses to a daemon log file, as demonstrated by logging in through ss...

CVE-2007-2765

CVE-2007-2765 concerns BlockHosts prior to 2.0.3, where improper parsing of daemon logs lets remote attackers add arbitrary entries to /etc/hosts.allow, enabling a denial of service by injecting IPs into a log file. Related entries (e.g., CVE-2007-4322/4323) describe a similar issue affecting Blo...

CVE-2007-2636: Undefined Security Weakness

Unspecified vulnerability in phpTodo before 0.8.1 allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact via newlines in regular expressions to 1 index.php, 2 feed.php, 3 prefs.php, and 4 todolist.php; and 5 classTodoItem.php and 6 phpTodoUser.php in libs/. NOTE: some of these details are obtained fro...

Design/Logic Flaw

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service browser hang via JavaScript that matches a regular expression against a long string, as demonstrated using /./...

Design/Logic Flaw

Konqueror 3.5.5 release 45.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service browser crash or abort via JavaScript that matches a regular expression against a long string, as demonstrated using /./...

CVE-2007-2162

1 Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.3 and 2 GNU IceWeasel 2.0.0.3 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service browser crash or system hang via JavaScript that matches a regular expression against a long string, as demonstrated using /./...

CVE-2007-2164

Konqueror 3.5.5 release 45.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service browser crash or abort via JavaScript that matches a regular expression against a long string, as demonstrated using /./...

CVE-2007-2161

Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service browser hang via JavaScript that matches a regular expression against a long string, as demonstrated using /./...

CVE-2007-2163

Apple Safari is affected by CVE-2007-2163: remote attackers can cause a denial of service by crafting JavaScript that matches a regular expression against an unusually long string, demonstrated with /(.)*/. The provided documents identify the vulnerable component as the Safari JavaScript engine a...