Date:         Tue, 6 Nov 2007 08:08:10 -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:	2007-11-05
CVE Names:	CVE-2007-1659 CVE-2007-1660

Multiple 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-2007-1659, 
CVE-2007-1660)

SL 4.x

   SRPMS:
pcre-4.5-4.el4_5.1.src.rpm
   i386:
pcre-4.5-4.1.i386.rpm
pcre-devel-4.5-4.1.i386.rpm
   x86_64:
pcre-4.5-4.1.i386.rpm
pcre-4.5-4.1.x86_64.rpm
pcre-devel-4.5-4.1.x86_64.rpm

SL 5.x

   SRPMS:
pcre-6.6-2.el5_0.1.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