PCRE: Buffer overflow

PCRE: Buffer overflow A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in PCRE, allowing for the execution of arbitrary code and a Denial of Service. libpcre glib 2008-07-07 2008-07-07 228091 230039 remote 7.7-r1 7.7-r1 2.16.3-r1 2.14.0 2.16.3-r1

PCRE is a Perl-compatible regular expression library. GLib includes a copy of PCRE.

Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security team reported a heap-based buffer overflow when compiling regular expression patterns containing "Internal Option Settings" such as "(?i)".

A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a specially crafted regular expression to an application making use of the PCRE library, which could possibly lead to the execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service.

There is no known workaround at this time.

All PCRE users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/libpcre-7.7-r1"

All GLib users should upgrade to the latest version:


    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-libs/glib-2.16.3-r1"

CVE-2008-2371 rbu rbu