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TITLE:
PCRE Quantifier Values Integer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA16502

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/16502/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access, DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
PCRE 6.x
http://secunia.com/product/5569/

DESCRIPTION:
A vulnerability has been reported in PCRE, which potentially can be
exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow in
pcre_compile.c when handling the minimum quantifier of a
parenthesized subpattern. This can lead to memory corruption and can
potentially be exploited for code execution via a specially crafted
regular expression.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 6.2 or later.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
Reported by vendor.

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