CVE-2008-2371 Information

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in pcre_compile.c in the Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library 7.7 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a regular expression that begins with an option and contains multiple branches.

Reference

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228091 http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glib/2.16/glib-2.16.4.changes http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00001.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124654546101607&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125631037611762&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/30916 http://secunia.com/advisories/30944 http://secunia.com/advisories/30945 http://secunia.com/advisories/30958 http://secunia.com/advisories/30961 http://secunia.com/advisories/30967 http://secunia.com/advisories/30972 http://secunia.com/advisories/30990 http://secunia.com/advisories/31200 http://secunia.com/advisories/32222 http://secunia.com/advisories/32454 http://secunia.com/advisories/32746 http://secunia.com/advisories/35074 http://secunia.com/advisories/35650 http://secunia.com/advisories/39300 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-05.xml http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549 http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-624-2 http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0305 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1602 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200807-03.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:147 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:023 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497828/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30087 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31681 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-624-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-628-1 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-133A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2005 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2006 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2336 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2780 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1297 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0833 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00105.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00123.html