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Mandriva Linux Security Advisory 2007.212

Mandriva Linux Security Advisory – Multiple vulnerabilities were discovered by Tavis Ormandy and Will Drewry in the way that pcre handled certain malformed regular expressions. If an application linked against pcre, such as Konqueror, parses a malicious regular expression, it could lead to the execution of arbitrary code as the user running the application.

 

You can download this advisory from the following link: https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/download/60801/MDKSA-2007-212.txt

Source: https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/60801/Mandriva-Linux-Security-Advisory-2007.212.html

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