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RHSA-2021:4373: Red Hat Security Advisory: pcre security update

An update for pcre is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.PCRE is a Perl-compatible regular expression library. Security Fix(es):

  • pcre: Buffer over-read in JIT when UTF is disabled and \X or \R has fixed quantifier greater than 1 (CVE-2019-20838)
  • pcre: Integer overflow when parsing callout numeric arguments (CVE-2020-14155) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.5 Release Notes linked from the References section. Related CVEs:
  • CVE-2019-20838: pcre: Buffer over-read in JIT when UTF is disabled and \X or \R has fixed quantifier greater than 1
  • CVE-2020-14155: pcre: Integer overflow when parsing callout numeric arguments
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RHSA-2021:4585: Red Hat Security Advisory: gcc-toolset-10-gcc security update

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RHSA-2021:4201: Red Hat Security Advisory: babel security and bug fix update

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RHSA-2021:4510: Red Hat Security Advisory: lua security update

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RHSA-2021:4424: Red Hat Security Advisory: openssl security and bug fix update

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RHSA-2021:4162: Red Hat Security Advisory: python38:3.8 and python38-devel:3.8 security update

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RHSA-2021:4517: Red Hat Security Advisory: vim security update

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