CVE - CVE-2008-1026 (under review)

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CVE-2008-1026 (under review)	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings
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.
References
Note: References are provided for the convenience of the reader to help distinguish between vulnerabilities. The list is not intended to be complete.
BUGTRAQ:20080416 ZDI-08-022: Apple Safari WebKit PCRE Handling Integer Overflow Vulnerability URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/490990/100/0/threaded MISC:http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-022 CONFIRM:http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1467 APPLE:APPLE-SA-2008-04-16 URL:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Apr/msg00001.html APPLE:APPLE-SA-2008-07-11 URL:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jul/msg00001.html BID:28815 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28815 VUPEN:ADV-2008-1250 URL:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/1250/references VUPEN:ADV-2008-2094 URL:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2008/2094/references SECTRACK:1019870 URL:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019870 SECUNIA:29846 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/29846 SECUNIA:31074 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/31074 SREASON:3815 URL:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3815 XF:apple-safari-webkit-pcrecompile-bo(41859) URL:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/41859
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Candidate	This CVE Identifier has "Candidate" status and must be reviewed and accepted by the CVE Editorial Board before it can be updated to official "Entry" status on the CVE List. It may be modified or even rejected in the future.
Phase
Assigned (20080226)
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Candidate assigned on 20080226 and proposed on N/A
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