Bug 691325 - Crash backtracking over unicode sequence
Summary: Crash backtracking over unicode sequence
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Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: pcre
Version: 5.7
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
low
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Petr Pisar
QA Contact: BaseOS QE Security Team
URL: http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=...
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-03-28 09:02 UTC by Petr Pisar
Modified: 2013-03-05 17:08 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Clone Of: 691319
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Last Closed: 2013-03-05 17:08:28 UTC
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Description Petr Pisar 2011-03-28 09:02:20 UTC 
+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #691319 +++

There is an invalid access to memory when backtracking an multi-byte string reported to upstream (http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1100); pcretest reproducer:

/^S\X*e\X* *$/E8
Stéréo

F16--13 (pcre-8.12-2--pcre-7.8-3) affected.
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RHEL-5.7 (pcre-6.6-6.el5_6.1) affected too.
Comment 1 Petr Pisar 2013-03-05 17:08:28 UTC 
I cannot fix this problem.
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