CVE-2008-0674

Impact

Buffer overflow in PCRE before 7.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression containing a character class with a large number of characters with Unicode code points greater than 255.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.14/glib-2.14.6.news
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Jul/msg00003.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Aug/msg00001.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00008.html
• http://pcre.org/changelog.txt
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28923
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28957
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28960
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28985
• http://secunia.com/advisories/28996
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29027
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29048
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29175
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29267
• http://secunia.com/advisories/29282
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30048
• http://secunia.com/advisories/30345
• http://secunia.com/advisories/31326
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32222
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32746
• http://secunia.com/advisories/36096
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-24.xml
• http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-05.xml
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216