Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions), which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or compromise a vulnerable system. These issues are caused by heap overflow and infinite loop errors when processing specially crafted regular expressions, which could be exploited by attackers to crash an application linked against a vulnerable library or execute arbitrary code.
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