CVE-2008-1026

Publication date 17 April 2008

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Medium

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Description

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

Package Ubuntu Release Status
webkit 11.04 natty
Not affected
10.10 maverick
Not affected
10.04 LTS lucid
Not affected
9.10 karmic
Not affected
9.04 jaunty
Not affected
8.10 intrepid
Not affected
8.04 LTS hardy Ignored end of life
7.10 gutsy Ignored end of life, was needed
7.04 feisty Not in release
6.06 LTS dapper Not in release

Notes

mdeslaur

qt4-x11 is not affected as per debian

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