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Gentoo: GLSA 200711-30 Normal: PCRE Execution Risk Advisory

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Calendar Grey November 20, 2007
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Recent PCRE flaws could lead to unauthorized code execution. Gentoo Linux users are advised to update.
PCRE is vulnerable to multiple buffer overflow and memory corruption vulnerabilities, possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary code.

Summary

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                           GLSA 200711-30
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: Normal
     Title: PCRE: Multiple vulnerabilities
      Date: November 20, 2007
      Bugs: #198198
        ID: 200711-30


Synopsis
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PCRE is vulnerable to multiple buffer overflow and memory corruption
vulnerabilities, possibly leading to the execution of arbitrary code.

Background
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PCRE is a library providing functions for Perl-compatible regular
expressions.

Affected packages
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     Package           /  Vulnerable  /                     Unaffected
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  1  dev-libs/libpcre      < 7.3-r1                          >= 7.3-r1

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Tavis Ormandy (Google Security) discovered multiple vulnerabilities in
PCRE. He repo...
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