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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2008-2371: PCRE: Buffer overflow

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Gentoo Linux: CVE-2008-2371: PCRE: Buffer overflow

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/07/2008
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/30/2017
Modified
06/15/2020

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.

Solution(s)

  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-lang-php
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-libs-glib
  • gentoo-linux-upgrade-dev-libs-libpcre

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