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--- Begin Message ---Package: cups 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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--- Begin Message ---On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 03:28:56PM +0100, Luciano Bello wrote: > Package: cups > 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 regex copy is only used when building on Windows. I double-checked by removing the entire vcnet/regex directory and rebuilding cups. Cheers, Moritz
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