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Ubuntu Security Notice 547-1

Posted Nov 27, 2007

Authored by Ubuntu | Site security.ubuntu.com

Ubuntu Security Notice 547-1 - Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry discovered multiple flaws in the regular expression handling of PCRE. By tricking a user or service into running specially crafted expressions via applications linked against libpcre3, a remote attacker could crash the application, monopolize CPU resources, or possibly execute arbitrary code with the application's privileges.

tags | advisory, remote, arbitrary

systems | linux, ubuntu

advisories | CVE-2007-1659, CVE-2007-1660, CVE-2007-1661, CVE-2007-1662, CVE-2007-4766, CVE-2007-4767, CVE-2007-4768

SHA-256 | 66bc5ad0bb37a4068f3555dae6e8753ea5e7fa341175c53f8af72d6e933363b5

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