[Pkg-tcltk-devel] tcl8.3/tcl8.4 oldstable update for CVE-2007-6067

[Giuseppe Iuculano]

Hi,

the following CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id was
published for tcl8.3/tcl8.4 some time ago.

CVE-2007-6067[0]:
| Algorithmic complexity vulnerability in the regular expression parser
| in TCL before 8.4.17, as used in PostgreSQL 8.2 before 8.2.6, 8.1
| before 8.1.11, 8.0 before 8.0.15, and 7.4 before 7.4.19, allows remote
| authenticated users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption)
| via a crafted "complex" regular expression with doubly-nested states.

Unfortunately the vulnerability described above is not important enough
to get it fixed via regular security update in Debian oldstable. It does
not warrant a DSA.

However it would be nice if this could get fixed via a regular point update[1].
Please contact the release team for this.

This is an automatically generated mail, in case you are already working on an
upgrade this is of course pointless.


For further information see:

[0] http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6067
    http://security-tracker.debian.net/tracker/CVE-2007-6067
[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/developers-reference/pkgs.html#upload-stable

Kind regards
Giuseppe.


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