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Re: HEADSUP: pcre security announcement
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com,Ronald Landheer-Cieslak <blytkerchan at users dot sourceforge dot net>
- Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 11:47:09 +0200
- Subject: Re: HEADSUP: pcre security announcement
- References: <20050822193426.GA6246@calimero.vinschen.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
Two weeks and no response. Unfortunately we have this security issue
and also a couple of packages relying on libpcre. So we would need either
a quick response from Ronald or somebody willing to take over the package
fairly quickly.
Anybody, please?
On Aug 22 21:34, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Ronald,
>
> I just found out about the following security advisory:
>
> http://www.securitytracker.com/alerts/2005/Aug/1014744.html
>
> "PCRE Heap Overflow May Let Users Execute Arbitrary Code"
>
> This is a vulnerability up to PCRE version 6.1. I just realized that
> your latest PCRE update is from 2003-12-15, version 4.5. Could you
> please look into this and update PCRE to the latest version 6.3?
Corinna
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