USN-2943-1

It was discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / pcre3

Package

Name: pcre3
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/pcre3@1:8.31-2ubuntu2.2?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1:8.31-2ubuntu2.2

Affected versions

1:8.*

1:8.31-2

1:8.31-2ubuntu2

1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "1:8.31-2ubuntu2.2",
            "binary_name": "libpcre3"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:8.31-2ubuntu2.2",
            "binary_name": "libpcre3-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:8.31-2ubuntu2.2",
            "binary_name": "libpcrecpp0"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:8.31-2ubuntu2.2",
            "binary_name": "pcregrep"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}