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TITLE:
PCRE Regex Parsing Multiple Vulnerabilities

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA27582

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/27582/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
DoS, System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
PCRE 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/5569/

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

The vulnerabilities are caused due to integer overflow errors when
parsing regular expressions and can be exploited to e.g. cause a
crash or a buffer overflow via specially crafted regular expressions.

SOLUTION:
The vulnerabilities are reportedly fixed in version 6.7.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Chris Evans

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2007-006.html

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