Gentoo: 200807-03 Critical PCRE Buffer Overflow Denial of Service Risk
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July 7, 2008
A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in PCRE, allowing for the execution of arbitrary code and a Denial of Service.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200807-03
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: High
Title: PCRE: Buffer overflow
Date: July 07, 2008
Bugs: #228091, #230039
ID: 200807-03
Synopsis
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A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in PCRE, allowing
for the execution of arbitrary code and a Denial of Service.
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PCRE is a Perl-compatible regular expression library. GLib includes a
copy of PCRE.
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