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Ubuntu 6.06-7.10 USN-581-1 Critical Vulnerability: PCRE DoS Attack

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Calendar Grey February 21, 2008
Dist Ubuntu Esm H88
A security flaw in PCRE on Ubuntu could lead to Denial of Service or remote code execution, as described in advisory USN-581-1 across various versions.
It was discovered that PCRE did not correctly handle very long strings containing UTF8 sequences

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security advisory critical exploit DoS Ubuntu patch PCRE

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Ubuntu Security Notice USN-581-1 February 21, 2008

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security advisory critical exploit DoS Ubuntu patch PCRE

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