Description: Some vulnerabilities have been reported in PCRE, which can be exploited by malicious people to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or potentially compromise an application using the library.
1) Integer overflow errors when parsing regular expressions can be exploited to e.g. cause a crash or a buffer overflow via specially crafted regular expressions.
2) Errors in the processing of regular expressions and memory calculation errors can be exploited to cause memory corruption.
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Solution: The vulnerabilities are reportedly fixed in version 6.7.
Provided and/or discovered by: 1) Chris Evans
2) Reported by the vendor.
Changelog: 2007-11-12: Added CVE reference.
2007-11-15: Added CVE reference.
2007-11-20: Added CVE reference.
2007-11-26: Added CVE reference.
2007-12-05: Updated "Description". Added CVE references.
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