Re: CVE Request: PCRE Library Heap Overflow Vulnerability in find_fixedlength()

[cve-assign () mitre org]

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> PCRE library is prone to a vulnerability which leads to Heap Overflow.
> During subpattern calculation of a malformed regular expression, an offset
> that is used as an array index is fully controlled and can be large enough
> so that unexpected heap memory regions are accessed.
> One could at least exploit this issue to read objects nearby of the
> affected application's memory.
>
> https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1651

> > The important thing was the excess closing parenthesis.
> >
> > pcre_compile.c
> >
> > -if (cd->check_lookbehind)
> > +if (errorcode == 0 && cd->check_lookbehind)

Use CVE-2015-5073.

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