RHSA-2021:4373 — Security Advisory

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.