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>> PCRE Character Class Codepoints UTF-8 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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Title : PCRE Character Class Codepoints UTF-8 Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2008-0570
CVE ID : CVE-2008-0674
Rated as : Moderate Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2008-02-15
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A vulnerability has been identified in PCRE, which could be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service or execute arbitrry code. This issue is caused by a buffer overflow error when handling a character class containing a very large number of characters with codepoints greater than 255 (UTF-8 mode), which could be exploited by attackes to crash an affected application or compromise a vulnerable system.
Affected Products
PCRE version 7.5 and prior
Solution
Upgrade to PCRE version 7.6 :
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/
References
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0570
http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt
Credits
Vulnerability reported by the vendor.
ChangeLog
2008-02-15 : Initial release
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