[Cucumber-linux-security] pcre (security update is available)

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  Update Information

A security update is available for pcre for the following versions of
Cucumber Linux:

  * 1.0
  * 1.1 Alpha

Here are the details from the Cucumber 1.0 changelog:

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Sun Oct 8 15:11:32 EDT 2017
lib-base/pcre upgraded from 8.39 to 8.41 to fix CVE-2017-7186, a vulnerability
	which allowed remote attackers to cause a denail of service (crash) by
	looking up an invalid Unicode property. For more information see:
		http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=66
		https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7186
		https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/03/14/libpcre-invalid-memory-read-in-match-pcre_exec-c/
multilib/lib-base/pcre-lib_i686 upgraded from 8.39 to 8.41 (x86_64 only)
* SECURITY FIX *
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  CLD and CVE Information

This update is associated with the following Cucumber Linux Deficiency
(CLD) and CVE numbers:

  * CLD-66 [CVE-2017-7186]
    (http://security.cucumberlinux.com/security/details.php?id=66)

More information about these CLDs can be found at their respective pages
on the Cucumber Linux Security Advisory Tracker (these are the URLs in
parenthesis above).

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  Installing the Update

The updated package can be installed via Pickle by running the following
commands (as root):

# pickle --update
# pickle

Make sure pcre is selected on the update list, and then select Ok.
Pickle will then install the updated package.

If you prefer to download the updated package manually, it can be found
on the mirror at http://mirror.cucumberlinux.com/cucumber/.

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