A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in PCRE. An attacker could use a crafted file that, when processed by PCRE, would crash the application using the PCRE library.

This issue only affects the PCRE version 8.40.

A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in PCRE. An attacker could use a crafted file that, when processed by PCRE, would crash the application using the PCRE library.

This issue only affects the PCRE version 8.40.

A vulnerability was found in pcre caused by trying to find a Unicode property for a code value greater than 0x10ffff, the Unicode maximum, when running in non-UTF mode (where character values can be up to 0xffffffff).

Upstream bug:

https://bugs.exim.org/showbug.cgi?id=2052

References:

https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/03/14/libpcre-invalid-memory-read-in-match-pcreexec-c/

Upstream patches (pcre):

https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1688

Upstream patches (pcre2):

https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=670

An invalid memory read flaw was found in PCRE. An attacker could use a crafted file that, when processed by PCRE, would crash the application using the PCRE library.