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Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 12:04:06 +0100
From: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@...iankeil.de>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Heap Overflow in PCRE

Hanno Böck <hanno@...eck.de> wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Nov 2015 12:57:09 +0100
> Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@...iankeil.de> wrote:
> 
> > The last sentence seems overly broad to me as many (most?)
> > applications use trusted PCRE patterns (that get parsed and executed)
> > to parse untrusted input.
> > 
> > For this use case the issues above don't seem to require immediate
> > action.  
> 
> True.
> I changed the wording to better reflect that.

Thanks.

Fabian

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