Mageia alert MGASA-2016-0395 (tre)

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[updates-announce] MGASA-2016-0395: Updated tre packages fix security vulnerability 
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Mon, 21 Nov 2016 23:18:34 +0100
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MGASA-2016-0395 - Updated tre packages fix security vulnerability

Publication date: 21 Nov 2016
URL: http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2016-0395.html
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases: 5
CVE: CVE-2015-3796,
     CVE-2016-8859

Description:
The TRE library allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary
code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application
crash) via a crafted regular expression (CVE-2015-3796).

A vulnerability has been found in the tre package that could allow an
attacker to perform controlled heap corruption (CVE-2016-8859).

References:
- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19793
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https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-ann...
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3796
- http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-8859

SRPMS:
- 5/core/tre-0.8.0-12.1.mga5