Thanks Philip for your reply. Eg of an invalid regex: (*)
In this case only an asterisk is provided(An asterisk cannot be the first element in a regex) I would grateful if you could confirm the behaviour for this regex. Thanks, Vinayak -----Original Message----- From: Philip Hazel [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2009 8:47 PM To: Vinayaka Bhat Cc: '[email protected]' Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] Memory corruption in PCRE compile (Version 6.6) for invalid regex On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Vinayaka Bhat wrote: > Is there a known issue in PCRE compilation wherein memory corruption > happens when we attempt to compile an invalid regular expression? > > The version I am using is 6.6 > > #define PCRE_MAJOR 6 > #define PCRE_MINOR 6 > #define PCRE_PRERELEASE > #define PCRE_DATE 06-Feb-2006 There have been many releases since then; the current release is 7.9 and there is a new release 8.00 in "final testing" - I hope to release it next week. Lots of bugs have been fixed since Feb 2006. Please test with the latest version. As you have not specified what the invalid regular expression is, I cannot test it for myself. Philip -- Philip Hazel -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev
