PCRE: Multiple vulnerabilities Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in the PCRE Library, the worst of which may allow remote attackers to cause a Denial of Service condition. libpcre 2017-10-23 2017-10-23 614048 614052 614054 remote 8.41 8.41

The PCRE Library provides functions for Perl-compatible regular expressions.

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in The PCRE Library. Please review the references below for details.

A remote attacker could possibly cause a Denial of Service condition or other unspecified impacts via a specially crafted file.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All PCRE users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/libpcre-8.41"

Packages which depend on this library may need to be recompiled. Tools such as revdep-rebuild may assist in identifying some of these packages.

CVE-2017-7186 CVE-2017-7244 CVE-2017-7245 CVE-2017-7246 b-man chrisadr