Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200711-28 - Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry (Google Security Team) discovered a heap-based buffer overflow in the Regular Expression engine (regcomp.c) that occurs when switching from byte to Unicode (UTF-8) characters in a regular expression. Versions less than 5.8.8-r4 are affected.
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