Version of privoxy as shipped in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 contains embedded copy of pcre source code (version 3.4). Any problem (bug or security issue) affecting pcre code may also need to be fixed in privoxy's copy of pcre code. Please switch to using system pcre library to avoid this. Fedora privoxy packages have been modified to use system pcre (see bug #226316) some time ago and according to maintainer, no problems surfaced (required patch must be included, of course).
Proposing for RHEL-5.3 and granting Devel ACK. Read ya, Phil
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0830.html