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Gentoo: 202306-17 Critical: PCRE Buffer Overflow Exploit

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Critical Gentoo Security Alert regarding a PCRE buffer overflow flaw that can lead to potential arbitrary code execution and denial-of-service (DoS) scenarios.
A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in PCRE, allowing for the execution of arbitrary code and Denial of Service.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory                        GLSA 200803-24:02
                                            https://security.gentoo.org/

  Severity: High
     Title: PCRE: Buffer overflow
      Date: March 17, 2008
   Updated: March 17, 2008
      Bugs: #209067, #209293
        ID: 200803-24:02


Synopsis
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A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in PCRE, allowing
for the execution of arbitrary code and Denial of Service.

Background
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PCRE is a Perl-compatible regular expression library. GLib includes a
copy of PCRE.

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