Gentoo: 202306-17 Critical: PCRE Buffer Overflow Exploit
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March 18, 2008
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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