USN-5665-1: PCRE vulnerabilities

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-6004   CVE-2017-7186  

PCRE could be made to crash if it received specially crafted input.

Details

It was discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular expressions.
A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using PCRE to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-6004)

It was discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain Unicode encoding. A
remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using PCRE to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-7186)