Asymmetric denial of service - ReDoS In glib2.0

Description

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.3 reads past the end of the string when searching for unmatched brackets and parentheses, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), possibly involving forward references.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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