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TITLE:
PCRE Character Class Buffer Overflow

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA28923

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/28923/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
PCRE 7.x
http://secunia.com/product/13118/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in PCRE, which potentially can be
exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or
compromise an application using the library.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when processing
character classes and can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via
an overly long character class with codepoints greater than 255.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 7.6.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 7.6.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by the vendor.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://pcre.org/changelog.txt

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