GLSA 201911-03: Oniguruma: Multiple vulnerabilities

Severity:high
Title:Oniguruma: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date:11/07/2019
Bugs: #691832
ID:201911-03

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in Oniguruma, the worst of which could result in the arbitrary execution of code.

Background

Oniguruma is a regular expression library.

Affected packages

Package Vulnerable Unaffected Architecture(s)
dev-libs/oniguruma < 6.9.3 >= 6.9.3 All supported architectures

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Oniguruma. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker, by enticing a user to process a specially crafted string using an application linked against Oniguruma, could possibly execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the process or cause a Denial of Service condition.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All Oniguruma users should upgrade to the latest version:

      # emerge --sync
      # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/oniguruma-6.9.3"
    

References

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201911-03.xml

Concerns?

Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to security@gentoo.org or alternatively, you may file a bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org.

License

Copyright 2010 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text belongs to its owner(s). The contents of this document are licensed under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

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