PCRE Perl Compatible Regular Expressions Library POSIX Denial Of Service Vulnerability

PCRE Perl Compatible Regular Expressions Library POSIX Denial Of Service Vulnerability

PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) is prone to a denial-of-service vulnerability because it fails to adequately sanitize user-supplied regular expressions.

A successful attack will cause an application using the library to crash, denying service to legitimate users.

Versions prior to PCRE 6.7 are vulnerable.