Updated: pcre-6.3-1, libpcre0-6.3-1, pcre-devel-6.3-1, pcre-doc-6.3-1(SECURITY)

[Yaakov S <yselkowitz at users dot sourceforge dot net>]

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The following packages have been updated in the Cygwin distribution:

*** libpcre0-6.3-1
*** pcre-6.3-1
*** pcre-devel-6.3-1
*** pcre-doc-6.3-1

This is a security update; previous versions of pcre (4.x) in the Cygwin
net release were outdated and subject to security vulnerability
CAN-2005-2491[1].

(This issue also affects the unversioned, pre-libtool libpcre package,
and as nothing currently in the net release depends on it, it will
likely be removed soon.)

libpcre0-6.3 should be source- and binary-compatible with previous versions.

The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression
pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl, with just
a few differences.  The current implementation of PCRE (release 6.x)
corresponds approximately with Perl 5.8, including support for UTF-8
encoded strings and Unicode general category properties.


Yaakov

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200508-17.xml
http://www.securitytracker.com/alerts/2005/Aug/1014744.html
http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-800

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