CVE-2008-1026 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2008-1026
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Description: Integer overflow in the PCRE regular expression compiler (JavaScriptCore/pcre/pcre_compile.cpp) in Apple WebKit, as used in Safari before 3.1.1, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression with large, nested repetition counts, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41859 ST 1019870 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA29846 Secunia Advisory: SA31074 MISC http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-022 CONFIRM http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1467 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/490990/100/0/threaded BID 28815 APPLE http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jul/msg00001.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Apr/msg00001.html

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