FKIE_CVE-2008-0674
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2008-02-18 23:00 - Updated: 2026-06-16 22:50
Severity
Summary
Buffer overflow in PCRE before 7.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression containing a character class with a large number of characters with Unicode code points greater than 255.
References
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