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USN-5627-2: PCRE vulnerabilities

22 September 2022

PCRE could be made to expose sensitive information.

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Releases

Packages

  • pcre2 - Perl 5 Compatible Regular Expression Library

Details

USN-5627-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in PCRE. This update
provides the corresponding fixes for Ubuntu 18.04 ESM.

Original advisory details:

It was discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled memory when
handling certain regular expressions. An attacker could possibly
use this issue to cause applications using PCRE to expose
sensitive information.

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Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04

After a standard system update you need to restart applications using PCRE,
such as the Apache HTTP server and Nginx, to make all the necessary
changes.

Related notices

  • USN-5627-1: libpcre2-16-0, libpcre2-32-0, libpcre2-dev, pcre2, libpcre2-posix2, libpcre2-posix3, pcre2-utils, libpcre2-8-0