Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-1025-01 - PCRE is a Perl-compatible regular expression library. Security Fix: Multiple flaws were found in the way PCRE handled malformed regular expressions. An attacker able to make an application using PCRE process a specially crafted regular expression could use these flaws to cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.
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Ubuntu Security Notice 2943-1 - It was discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.
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