Date:         Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:07:07 -0600
Reply-To:     Troy Dawson 
Sender:       Security Errata for Scientific Linux
              
From:         Troy Dawson 
Subject:      Security ERRATA for pcre on SL5.x, SL4.x i386/x86_64
Comments: To: scientific-linux-errata@fnal.gov

Synopsis:	Critical: pcre security update
Issue date:	2007-11-09
CVE Names:	CVE-2006-7224

Flaws were found in the way PCRE handles certain malformed regular
expressions. If an application linked against PCRE, such as Konqueror,
parses a malicious regular expression, it may be possible to run 
arbitrary code as the user running the application. (CVE-2006-7224)

SL 4.x

   SRPMS:
pcre-4.5-4.4.src.rpm
   i386:
pcre-4.5-4.4.i386.rpm
pcre-devel-4.5-4.4.i386.rpm
   x86_64:
pcre-4.5-4.4.i386.rpm
pcre-4.5-4.4.x86_64.rpm
pcre-devel-4.5-4.4.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

   SRPMS:
pcre-6.6-2.el5.1.src.rpm
   i386:
pcre-6.6-2.el5.1.i386.rpm
pcre-devel-6.6-2.el5.1.i386.rpm
   x86_64:
pcre-6.6-2.el5.1.i386.rpm
pcre-6.6-2.el5.1.x86_64.rpm
pcre-devel-6.6-2.el5.1.i386.rpm
pcre-devel-6.6-2.el5.1.x86_64.rpm

-Connie Sieh
-Troy Dawson