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pcre: buffer overflow

Package(s):pcre CVE #(s):CVE-2008-0674
Created:February 19, 2008 Updated:March 18, 2008
Description: A buffer overflow caused by a character class containing a very large number of characters with codepoints greater than 255 (in UTF-8 mode) may affect usages of pcre, when regular expressions from untrusted sources are compiled.
Alerts:
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1783 2008-02-19
Debian DSA-1499-1 2008-02-19
Ubuntu USN-581-1 2008-02-21
SuSE SUSE-SR:2008:004 2008-02-22
Mandriva MDVSA-2008:053 2007-02-28
rPath rPSA-2008-0086-1 2008-02-28
Fedora FEDORA-2008-1842 2008-03-06
Gentoo 200803-24:02 2008-03-17

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