Ubuntu 6.06 LTS / 6.10 / 7.04 / 7.10 : pcre3 vulnerability (USN-581-1)

It was discovered that PCRE did not correctly handle very long strings containing UTF8 sequences. In certain situations, an attacker could exploit applications linked against PCRE by tricking a user or automated system in processing a malicious regular expression leading to a denial of service or...