Secunia Logo  


Secunia PSI WorldMap
 
PCRE Quantifier Values Integer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA16502
Release Date: 2005-08-22
Last Update: 2005-08-25
Popularity: 17,936 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: DoS
System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:PCRE 6.x

Secunia CVSS-2 Score: Available in Secunia business solutions

Subscribe: Instant alerts on relevant vulnerabilities


Advisory Content (Page 1 of 3)[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]

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.

Change Page:
[ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ]



Track this Secunia Advisory
Customers of the Secunia Vulnerability Intelligence solutions will automatically receive updates when new information regarding this advisory is released.

Read more about our Vulnerability Intelligence solutions and what they can do for you and your company.

About this Secunia Advisory
Please note: The information that this Secunia Advisory is based on comes from a third party unless stated otherwise.

Secunia collects, validates, and verifies all vulnerability reports issued by security research groups, vendors, and others.
  
Latest Advisories

Send Feedback to Secunia
If you have new information regarding this Secunia advisory or a product in our database, please send it to us using either our web form or email us at vuln@secunia.com.

Ideas, suggestions, and other feedback are most welcome.

Most Popular - 3 Hours

1. Microsoft DirectShow MPEG2TuneRequest ActiveX Control Buffer Overflow // 306 views
2. Internet Explorer Charset Inheritance Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability // 56 views
3. Adobe Flash Player Multiple Vulnerabilities // 30 views
4. Facebook Photo Uploader ActiveX Control Property Handling Buffer Overflow // 28 views
5. Sun Java JDK / JRE Multiple Vulnerabilities // 21 views
6. Microsoft Word Malformed Object Pointer Vulnerability // 17 views
7. Sun Java System Web Server Java Server Pages Content Disclosure // 17 views
8. Internet Explorer 7 Window Injection Vulnerability // 16 views
9. Adobe Reader/Acrobat Multiple Vulnerabilities // 14 views
10. Horde Passwd Module "backend" Cross-Site Scripting Vulnerability // 13 views