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Gentoo: GLSA-200508-17 High: libpcre Heap Integer Overflow Threat

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Calendar Grey August 25, 2005
Scroller Gentoo
libpcre contains a critical heap integer overflow vulnerability that hackers could exploit to run arbitrary code on Gentoo operating systems.
libpcre is vulnerable to a heap integer overflow, possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200508-17 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: libpcre: Heap integer overflow Date: August 25, 2005 Bugs: #103337 ID: 200508-17

Synopsis ======= libpcre is vulnerable to a heap integer overflow, possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary code.
Background ========= libpcre is a library providing functions for Perl-compatible regular expressions.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 dev-libs/libpcre < 6.3 >= 6.3
========== libpcre fails to check certain quantifier values in regular expressions for sane values.
Impact ===== An attacker could possibly exploit this vulnerability to execute ...

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