Bug 205201

Summary:	dev-lang/R-2.X PCRE Multiple Vulnerabilities (CVE-2007-1659,CVE-2007-1660,CVE-2007-1661,CVE-2007-1662,CVE-2007-4766,CVE-2007-4767,CVE-2007-4768)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Lars Hartmann <lars>
Component:	Vulnerabilities	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	sci
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://secunia.com/advisories/28414/
Whiteboard:	B2 [upstream]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Lars Hartmann 2008-01-10 13:13:04 UTC

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.

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.

Comment 1 Pierre-Yves Rofes (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-01-10 13:36:50 UTC

you should look the original report before filing bugs :p

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 198976 ***