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TITLE:
R PCRE Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28414

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28414/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information, DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
R 2.x
http://secunia.com/product/17147/

DESCRIPTION:
Some vulnerabilities have been reported in R, which can be exploited
by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service), disclose
sensitive information, or potentially compromise an application using
the library.

The vulnerabilities are caused due to the use of vulnerable PCRE
code.

For more information:
SA27543

The vulnerabilities are reported in version 2.2.1, 2.6.0 and 2.6.1.
Other versions may also be affected.

SOLUTION:
Do not parse untrusted regular expressions with R. The vendor will
reportedly fix the vulnerabilities in the next release.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported via a Gentoo bug report.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198976

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA27543:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27543/

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