Summary
The remote host is missing an update to pcre3
announced via advisory DSA 1499-1.
Solution
https://secure1.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?in=DSA%201499-1
Insight
It was discovered that specially crafted regular expressions involving codepoints greater than 255 could cause a buffer overflow in the PCRE library (CVE-2008-0674).
For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 6.7+7.4-3.
For the old stable distribution (sarge), this problem has been fixed in version 4.5+7.4-2.
For the unstable distribution, thi problem has been fixed in version 7.6-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your pcre3 package.
Severity
Classification
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CVE CVE-2008-0674 -
CVSS Base Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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