[pcre-dev] [Bug 704] stack overflow crash

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Author: Philip Hazel
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http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=704




--- Comment #1 from Philip Hazel <ph10@???> 2008-05-05 20:59:00 ---
On Mon, 5 May 2008, Lothar Scholz wrote:

> the library crashs with a stack overflow error in pcre_exec.


Stack overflows are not unknown in PCRE. If you give it a pattern and
data that recurses a lot, it will run out of stack. Have you read the
pcrestack.3 man page?

Philip


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