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Old 07-14-2008
USN-624-1: PCRE vulnerability
Referenced CVEs:
CVE-2008-2371


Description:
=========================================================== Ubuntu Security Notice USN-624-1 July 15, 2008 pcre3 vulnerability CVE-2008-2371 =========================================================== A security issue affects the following Ubuntu releases: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Ubuntu 7.04 Ubuntu 7.10 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS This advisory also applies to the corresponding versions of Kubuntu, Edubuntu, and Xubuntu. The problem can be corrected by upgrading your system to the following package versions: Ubuntu 6.06 LTS: libpcre3 7.4-0ubuntu0.6.06.3 Ubuntu 7.04: libpcre3 7.4-0ubuntu0.7.04.3 Ubuntu 7.10: libpcre3 7.4-0ubuntu0.7.10.3 Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: libpcre3 7.4-1ubuntu2.1 In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes. Details follow: Tavis Ormandy discovered that the PCRE library did not correctly handle certain in-pattern options. An attacker could cause applications linked against pcre3 to crash, leading to a denial of service.





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pcre-config

PCRE-CONFIG(1)						      General Commands Manual						    PCRE-CONFIG(1)

NAME

       pcre-config - program to return PCRE configuration

SYNOPSIS


       pcre-config [--prefix] [--exec-prefix] [--version] [--libs]
	    [--libs-posix] [--cflags] [--cflags-posix]

DESCRIPTION


       pcre-config returns the configuration of the installed PCRE libraries and the options required to compile a program to use them.

OPTIONS


       --prefix  Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architecture independent files (/usr on many systems, /usr/local on
		 some systems) to the standard output.

       --exec-prefix
		 Writes the directory prefix used in the PCRE installation for architecture dependent files (normally the same as --prefix) to the
		 standard output.

       --version Writes the version number of the installed PCRE libraries to the standard output.

       --libs	 Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link with PCRE (-lpcre on many systems).

       --libs-posix
		 Writes to the standard output the command line options required to link with the PCRE posix emulation library (-lpcreposix -lpcre
		 on many systems).

       --cflags  Writes to the standard output the command line options required to compile files that use PCRE (this may include some -I options,
		 but is blank on many systems).

       --cflags-posix
		 Writes  to the standard output the command line options required to compile files that use the PCRE posix emulation library (this
		 may include some -I options, but is blank on many systems).

SEE ALSO


       pcre(3)

AUTHOR


       This manual page was originally written by Mark Baker for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It has been slightly revised as a generic  PCRE  man
       page.

REVISION


       Last updated: 18 April 2007

																    PCRE-CONFIG(1)