Integer overflow in the PCRE regular expression compiler (JavaScriptCore/pcre/pcre_compile.cpp) in Apple WebKit, as used in Safari before 3.1.1, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression with large, nested repetition counts, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
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EUVD-2008-1037 | Integer overflow in the PCRE regular expression compiler (JavaScriptCore/pcre/pcre_compile.cpp) in Apple WebKit, as used in Safari before 3.1.1, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression with large, nested repetition counts, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow. |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T08:08:57.497Z
Reserved: 2008-02-26T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2008-1026
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2008-04-17T19:05:00.000
Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490
Link: CVE-2008-1026
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