ALAS-2023-1775 --- glib2ID: oval:org.secpod.oval:def:1601731 | Date: (C)2023-07-10 (M)2024-04-17 |
Class: PATCH | Family: unix |
Heap-based buffer overflow in the find_fixedlength function in pcre_compile.c in PCRE before 8.38 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or obtain sensitive information from heap memory and possibly bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted regular expression with an excess closing parenthesis. PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the [: and \ substrings in character classes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror. PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the
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Amazon Linux AMI |