USN-5627-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in PCRE. This update provides the corresponding fixes for Ubuntu 18.04 ESM.
Original advisory details:
It was discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled memory when handling certain regular expressions. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause applications using PCRE to expose sensitive information.
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