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Re: Heap Overflow in PCRE

From: Hanno Böck <hanno () hboeck de>
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2015 13:00:38 +0100

On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 12:57:09 +0100
Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen () fabiankeil de> wrote:

The last sentence seems overly broad to me as many (most?)
applications use trusted PCRE patterns (that get parsed and executed)
to parse untrusted input.

For this use case the issues above don't seem to require immediate
action.


True.
I changed the wording to better reflect that.

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Heap Overflow in PCRE Hanno Böck (Nov 24)
- Re: Heap Overflow in PCRE Moritz Muehlenhoff (Nov 24)
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