MGASA-2014-0534

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    MGASA-2014-0534

    Published: 19 Dec 2014Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-8964

    Summary: Updated pcre packages fix security vulnerability

    Details: A flaw was found in the way PCRE handled certain malformed regular expressions. This issue could cause an application linked against PCRE to crash while parsing malicious regular expressions (CVE-2014-8964).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0534.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14789, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145843.html

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: pcre

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/pcre?arch=source&distro=mageia-4

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -8.33-2.1.mga4

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
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    High
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