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R PCRE Multiple Vulnerabilities
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA28414
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Release Date:
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2008-01-10
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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Exposure of sensitive information
DoS
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Unpatched
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| Software: | R 2.x
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| | CVE reference: | CVE-2007-1659 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-1660 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-1661 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-1662 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-4766 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-4767 (Secunia mirror)
CVE-2007-4768 (Secunia mirror)
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This advisory is currently marked as unpatched!
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Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in R, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service), disclose sensitive information, or potentially compromise an application using the library.
The vulnerabilities are caused due to the use of vulnerable PCRE code.
For more information:
SA27543
The vulnerabilities are reported in version 2.2.1, 2.6.0 and 2.6.1. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Do not parse untrusted regular expressions with R. The vendor will reportedly fix the vulnerabilities in the next release.
Provided and/or discovered by:
Reported via a Gentoo bug report.
Original Advisory:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198976
Other References:
SA27543:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27543/
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