Fedora 8 : glib2-2.14.6-1.fc8 (2008-1533)

PCRE 7.6 fixed following bug: A character class containing a very large number of characters with codepoints greater than 255 in UTF-8 mode, of course caused a buffer overflow. The GLib release 2.14.6 updates the included copy of PCRE to version 7.6. Note that Tenable Network Security has extract...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : glib2 (glib2-4768)

Glib2 contains a copy of the pcre library. Specially crafted regular expressions could lead to a buffer overflow in the pcre library. Applications using pcre to process regular expressions from untrusted sources could therefore potentially be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code...

Fedora 8 : glib2-2.14.3-1.fc8 (2007-2944)

The latest stable upstream release of GLib includes a new version of PCRE, which fixes several vulnerabilities. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it a...