USN-5665-1

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. (CVE-2017-6004)

It was discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain Unicode encoding. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-7186)

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS / pcre3

Package

Name: pcre3
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/pcre3?arch=source&distro=esm-infra%2Fxenial

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

2:8.38-3.1ubuntu0.1~esm2

Affected versions

2:8.*

2:8.35-7.1ubuntu1

2:8.38-1ubuntu1

2:8.38-3

2:8.38-3.1

2:8.38-3.1ubuntu0.1~esm1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability":  "Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro",
    "binaries":  [
        {
            "binary_name":  "libpcre16-3",
            "binary_version":  "2:8.38-3.1ubuntu0.1~esm2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name":  "libpcre3",
            "binary_version":  "2:8.38-3.1ubuntu0.1~esm2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name":  "libpcre32-3",
            "binary_version":  "2:8.38-3.1ubuntu0.1~esm2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name":  "libpcrecpp0v5",
            "binary_version":  "2:8.38-3.1ubuntu0.1~esm2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name":  "pcregrep",
            "binary_version":  "2:8.38-3.1ubuntu0.1~esm2"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

cves_map

{
    "cves":  [
        {
            "id":  "CVE-2017-6004",
            "severity":  [
                {
                    "score":  "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
                    "type":  "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score":  "low",
                    "type":  "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "id":  "CVE-2017-7186",
            "severity":  [
                {
                    "score":  "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
                    "type":  "CVSS_V3"
                },
                {
                    "score":  "low",
                    "type":  "Ubuntu"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "ecosystem":  "Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS"
}

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-5665-1.json"