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Bug 1434504 (CVE-2017-7186) - CVE-2017-7186 pcre: Invalid Unicode property lookup (8.41/7, 10.24/2)
Summary: CVE-2017-7186 pcre: Invalid Unicode property lookup (8.41/7, 10.24/2)
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2017-7186
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1434511 1434512 1434513 1434514 1434515 1434516 1434517
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-03-21 15:59 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2021-02-17 02:26 UTC (History)
38 users (show)

Fixed In Version: pcre 8.41, pcre2 10.24
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Last Closed: 2017-06-08 03:41:05 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2018:2486 0 None None None 2018-08-16 16:08:38 UTC

Description Andrej Nemec 2017-03-21 15:59:22 UTC 
A vulnerability was found in pcre caused by trying to find a Unicode property for a code value greater than 0x10ffff, the Unicode maximum, when running in non-UTF mode (where character values can be up to 0xffffffff).

Upstream bug:

https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2052

References:

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/03/14/libpcre-invalid-memory-read-in-match-pcre_exec-c/

Upstream patches (pcre):

https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1688

Upstream patches (pcre2):

https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=670
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-03-21 16:04:00 UTC 
Created glib2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1434517]


Created mingw-glib2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1434515]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1434514]


Created mingw-pcre tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1434516]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1434513]


Created pcre2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-6 [bug 1434511]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1434512]
Comment 3 Petr Pisar 2017-04-18 12:38:04 UTC 
The same issue exists in JIT code and it was fixed separately with SVN r720 commit:

From 749c2eb6994ee26c1fcf1eb7b57faf5c84e9878b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zherczeg <zherczeg@6239d852-aaf2-0410-a92c-79f79f948069>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 05:40:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix character type detection when 32-bit and UCP are enabled
 but UTF is not in JIT.
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

git-svn-id: svn://vcs.exim.org/pcre2/code/trunk@720 6239d852-aaf2-0410-a92c-79f79f948069
Comment 4 Petr Pisar 2017-04-21 08:18:57 UTC 
And the same issue in JIT code in PCRE1 was fixed with SVN r1693 commit:

From 3b8f1ab07fb1744c57f5d04c872e81d8d669de87 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zherczeg <zherczeg@2f5784b3-3f2a-0410-8824-cb99058d5e15>
Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 05:41:17 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix character type detection when 32-bit and UCP are enabled
 but UTF is not in JIT.
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

git-svn-id: svn://vcs.exim.org/pcre/code/trunk@1693 2f5784b3-3f2a-0410-8824-cb99058d5e15
Comment 5 Doran Moppert 2017-06-07 01:51:08 UTC 
This issue is specific to PCRE32 (utf-32) mode, which is not available in the pcre-7.8 (shipped in 6.x) and not enabled in the various bundling components (glib, virtuoso, php, mariadb).
Comment 6 Doran Moppert 2017-06-08 03:41:31 UTC 
Statement:

Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having Moderate security impact. This issue is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2018-08-16 16:08:25 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Core Services

Via RHSA-2018:2486 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486
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