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pcre -- buffer overflow vulnerability

Affected packages
		pcre	<	7.6

Details

VuXML ID	f9e96930-e6df-11dc-8c6a-00304881ac9a
Discovery	2008-01-28
Entry	2008-02-29

PCRE developers report:

A character class containing a very large number of characters with codepoints greater than 255 (in UTF-8 mode, of course) caused a buffer overflow.

[source]

References

Bugtraq ID	27786
CVE Name	CVE-2008-0674
URL	http://pcre.org/changelog.txt