RHEL 5 : pcre (RHSA-2007:0967)

Updated pcre packages that correct two security flaws are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. PCRE is a Perl-compatible regular expression library. Multiple flaws were found in the way...

RHEL 3 / 4 / 5 : perl (RHSA-2007:0966)

Updated Perl packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system administration...

Debian DSA-1399-1 : pcre3 - several vulnerabilities

Tavis Ormandy of the Google Security Team has discovered several security issues in PCRE, the Perl-Compatible Regular Expression library, which potentially allow attackers to execute arbitrary code by compiling specially crafted regular expressions. Version 7.0 of the PCRE library featured a majo...

RHEL 4 : pcre (RHSA-2007:0968)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 4 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2007:0968 advisory. PCRE is a Perl-compatible regular expression library. Multiple flaws were found in the way pcre handles certain malformed regular expressions. If an...

Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : perl (MDKSA-2007:207)

Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry discovered a flaw in Perl's regular expression engine. Specially crafted input to a regular expression can cause Perl to improperly allocate memory, resulting in the possible execution of arbitrary code with the permissions of the user running Perl. Updated packages...

pcre security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2007:0968 Updated pcre packages that correct two security flaws are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. PCRE is a Perl-compatible regular...

perl security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2007:0966 Updated Perl packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Perl is a high-level programming...

perl regular expression UTF parsing errors

Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine regcomp.c in Perl 5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by switching from byte to Unicode UTF characters in a regular expression...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: perl security update

Updated Perl packages that fix security issues for Red Hat Application Stack v1.2 are now available. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system administration utilities an...

perl regular expression UTF parsing errors

Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine regcomp.c in Perl 5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by switching from byte to Unicode UTF characters in a regular expression...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: perl security update

Updated Perl packages that fix a security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, 4, and 5. This update has been rated as having important security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. Perl is a high-level programming language commonly used for system administration...

pcre regular expression flaws

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression PCRE library before 7.0 does not properly calculate sizes for unspecified "multiple forms of character class", which triggers a buffer overflow that allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: pcre security update

Updated pcre packages that correct two security flaws are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. PCRE is a Perl-compatible regular expression library. Multiple flaws were found in the way...

Critical: Red Hat Security Advisory: pcre security update

Updated pcre packages that correct two security flaws are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This update has been rated as having critical security impact by the Red Hat Security Response Team. PCRE is a Perl-compatible regular expression library. Multiple flaws were found in the way...

pcre regular expression flaws

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression PCRE library before 7.0 does not properly calculate sizes for unspecified "multiple forms of character class", which triggers a buffer overflow that allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service crash and possibly execute arbitrary code...

Important: perl security update

5.8.5-36.el45.2.0.1 - Added patch perl-5.8.5-OEL-mock-build.patch to disable test lib/Net/t/hostname.t, so that mock build succeeds 5.8.5-36.el4.2 - Resolves: bug323791 - fix previous patch 5.8.5-36.el4.1 - Resolves: bug323791 - fix regular expression UTF parsing errors...

DSA-1399-1 pcre3 - arbitrary code execution

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perl -- regular expressions unicode data buffer overflow

Red Hat reports: A flaw was found in Perl's regular expression engine. Specially crafted input to a regular expression can cause Perl to improperly allocate memory, possibly resulting in arbitrary code running with the permissions of the user running Perl...

CVE-2003-1440

SpamProbe 0.8a allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service crash via HTML e-mail with newline characters within an href tag, which is not properly handled by certain regular expressions...

CVE-2003-1440

SpamProbe 0.8a is affected: remote DoS via HTML e-mail containing newline characters inside an href tag, due to how certain regular expressions are not handling this input. The root cause is the incorrect handling of newlines in href attributes. Impact is described as a crash/partial availability...