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CVE-2008-2371
critical
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in pcre_compile.c in the Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library 7.7 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a regular expression that begins with an option and contains multiple branches.
References
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00123.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00105.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0833
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1297
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2780
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2336
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2006
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2005
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-133A.html
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-628-1
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-624-1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31681
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30087
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497828/100/0/threaded
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200807-03.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1602
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-624-2
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-05.xml
http://secunia.com/advisories/39300
http://secunia.com/advisories/35650
http://secunia.com/advisories/35074
http://secunia.com/advisories/32746
http://secunia.com/advisories/32454
http://secunia.com/advisories/32222
http://secunia.com/advisories/31200
http://secunia.com/advisories/30990
http://secunia.com/advisories/30972
http://secunia.com/advisories/30967
http://secunia.com/advisories/30961
http://secunia.com/advisories/30958
http://secunia.com/advisories/30945
http://secunia.com/advisories/30944
http://secunia.com/advisories/30916
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125631037611762&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124654546101607&w=2
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glib/2.16/glib-2.16.4.changes