Technical Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Mandriva, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary code. This issue is caused by an error in PCRE. For additional information, see : VUPEN/ADV-2008-2000

Affected Products

Mandriva Linux 2007.1
Mandriva Linux 2008.0
Mandriva Linux 2008.1

Solution

Upgrade the affected packages :

Mandriva Linux 2007.1:
a3e3934cb41d04b4a15a3e50d884abbc 2007.1/i586/libpcre0-7.3-0.3mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
fca86a5adfb2c972f4adb2b99990f3a8 2007.1/i586/libpcre-devel-7.3-0.3mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
7d81a63b51aea4b3d3385ac5d03f9d69 2007.1/i586/pcre-7.3-0.3mdv2007.1.i586.rpm
c258d42150bf39a9f4175b9d17a336cd 2007.1/SRPMS/pcre-7.3-0.3mdv2007.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2007.1/X86_64:
af61b2559878c624ec2c8f293e221fd8 2007.1/x86_64/lib64pcre0-7.3-0.3mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
8be415d8476a87a8994e84db6188395d 2007.1/x86_64/lib64pcre-devel-7.3-0.3mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
4d9fd3c6fbbda0e7e2c6bac3c865ec8d 2007.1/x86_64/pcre-7.3-0.3mdv2007.1.x86_64.rpm
c258d42150bf39a9f4175b9d17a336cd 2007.1/SRPMS/pcre-7.3-0.3mdv2007.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.0:
1c21e71318e14c7362eb673f3d4d4a7e 2008.0/i586/libpcre0-7.3-1.2mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
d36505e192f28cfd9f4242df50c0e1d1 2008.0/i586/libpcre-devel-7.3-1.2mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
9ae42fd97fa6dbb0834eae3fe80186fc 2008.0/i586/pcre-7.3-1.2mdv2008.0.i586.rpm
3aed84571823dcc78347c5578de8c3ab 2008.0/SRPMS/pcre-7.3-1.2mdv2008.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.0/X86_64:
622f55bf529e5c2a657d871a7e1b45d6 2008.0/x86_64/lib64pcre0-7.3-1.2mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
115746711305143d1be0025478bfccfe 2008.0/x86_64/lib64pcre-devel-7.3-1.2mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
c5eced7185fa66c92753d0e54078fa3a 2008.0/x86_64/pcre-7.3-1.2mdv2008.0.x86_64.rpm
3aed84571823dcc78347c5578de8c3ab 2008.0/SRPMS/pcre-7.3-1.2mdv2008.0.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.1:
45e7f158494fe2f9cd2b3be3dc4f9c30 2008.1/i586/libpcre0-7.6-2.1mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
64a7ebd228c824f0eeabfc1de2f3af8f 2008.1/i586/libpcre-devel-7.6-2.1mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
0637ebeb63a52ff1c6675e6a185aed54 2008.1/i586/pcre-7.6-2.1mdv2008.1.i586.rpm
aa16262a74bf569d8184328334bb480c 2008.1/SRPMS/pcre-7.6-2.1mdv2008.1.src.rpm

Mandriva Linux 2008.1/X86_64:
4180d16683a363b7d912bd9af780e4fc 2008.1/x86_64/lib64pcre0-7.6-2.1mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
5cc4e7a0297942f840c000d52b44e93a 2008.1/x86_64/lib64pcre-devel-7.6-2.1mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
70251c4bcaf5847c0c4ff6e534bc30cf 2008.1/x86_64/pcre-7.6-2.1mdv2008.1.x86_64.rpm
aa16262a74bf569d8184328334bb480c 2008.1/SRPMS/pcre-7.6-2.1mdv2008.1.src.rpm

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2127
http://archives.mandrivalinux.com/security-announce/2008-07/msg00032.php

ChangeLog

2008-07-18 : Initial release

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