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Gentoo: 200807-03 Critical PCRE Buffer Overflow Denial of Service Risk

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Calendar Grey July 7, 2008
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
A critical buffer overflow vulnerability in the PCRE library could enable arbitrary code execution and Denial of Service, affecting system stability
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 ======= A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in PCRE, allowing for the execution of arbitrary code and a Denial of Service.
Background ========= PCRE is a Perl-compatible regular expression library. GLib includes a copy of PCRE.
Affected packages ================ -------------------------------------...

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