PCRE 6.2 - Regular Expression Compiling Workspace Buffer Overflow

Author: Michael Santos
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platform: linux
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date_added: 2010-05-06 
date_updated: 2014-07-02 
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source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39974/info

PCRE is prone to a buffer-overflow vulnerability because the library fails to perform adequate boundary checks on user-supplied input.

Attackers may leverage this issue to execute arbitrary code in the context of an application using the PCRE library. Failed attacks may result in denial-of-service conditions.

Versions prior to PCRE 8.02 are vulnerable; applications which use the PCRE library may also be affected.

perl -e 'print "/","("x819, ")"x819, "/"' | pcretest