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- Author: vmiklos
- Vulnerable: 7.4-1
- Unaffected: 7.6-1sayshell1
A vulnerability has been reported in PCRE, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or compromise an application using the library. The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error when processing character classes and can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow via an overly long character class with codepoints greater than 255.
- Bug Tracker URL: http://bugs.frugalware.org/task/2785