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and subject line Re: Bug#778401: Henry Spencer regular expressions (regex)
library contains a heap overflow vulnerability
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regarding Henry Spencer regular expressions (regex) library contains a heap
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Package: knews
Severity: important
Tags: security patch
The security team received a report from the CERT Coordination Center that the
Henry Spencer regular expressions (regex) library contains a heap overflow
vulnerability. It looks like this package includes the affected code at that's
the reason of this bug report.
The patch is available here:
http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blobdiff/4d133046c59a851141519d03553a70e903b3eefc..2841837793bd095a82f477e9c370cfe6cfb3862c:/lib/libc/regex/regcomp.c
Please, can you confirm if the binary packages are affected? Are stable and
testing affected?
More information, here:
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/695940
https://guidovranken.wordpress.com/2015/02/04/full-disclosure-heap-overflow-in-h-spencers-regex-library-on-32-bit-systems/
A CVE id has been requested already and the report will be updated with it
eventually.
Cheers, luciano
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On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 03:38:10PM +0100, Luciano Bello wrote:
> The security team received a report from the CERT Coordination Center that
> the
> Henry Spencer regular expressions (regex) library contains a heap overflow
> vulnerability. It looks like this package includes the affected code at
> that's
> the reason of this bug report.
>
> The patch is available here:
> http://gitweb.dragonflybsd.org/dragonfly.git/blobdiff/4d133046c59a851141519d03553a70e903b3eefc..2841837793bd095a82f477e9c370cfe6cfb3862c:/lib/libc/regex/regcomp.c
>
> Please, can you confirm if the binary packages are affected? Are stable and
> testing affected?
Thanks for your report. I've checked; this code is only compiled if
HAVE_POSIX_REGEXPS is 0, and that has been hardcoded to 1 since my
revision control history begins with version 1.0b.1-6 (2001-10-17), so
certainly no supported Debian release has a problem here.
Regards,
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Colin Watson [[email protected]]
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