[pcre-dev] [Bug 1638] PCRE Library Call Stack Overflow Vulnerability in match()

2015-06-04 Thread admin
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1638 --- Comment #4 from Zoltan Herczeg --- > It does not seem to be a problem of PHP. Trust me it is. It is true, that you found a bug in PCRE, but the stack overflow is caused by not setting the match_limit_recursion variable. This variable limits the dep

Re: [pcre-dev] \l issue

2015-06-04 Thread Ze'ev Atlas
question #1 I've installed PCRE 8.37 on my Linux box (I am not proficient in Linux) and in the end I've got:make[3]: Leaving directory `/home/zeev/pcre-8.37' make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/zeev/pcre-8.37' make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/zeev/pcre-8.37' ‘/usr/lib/libpcre.so.1’ -> ‘/lib/libpcre

[pcre-dev] [Bug 1638] PCRE Library Call Stack Overflow Vulnerability in match()

2015-06-04 Thread admin
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1638 --- Comment #3 from hhjack --- It does not seem to be a problem of PHP. I have mailed to them lately about this potential match_limit_recursion thing. Here is what they reply: " We cannot do much for it. Increase the stack of your server (apache has an o

Re: [pcre-dev] Powerpc optimisation

2015-06-04 Thread Frederic Bonnard
Thanks Zoltan for the quick reply. - Ok I think I got it for SSE2. - For SIMD instructions, I fear I don't have currently the knowledge for that but would be willing to learn/help. - A good start would be that 3rd point, about current code and performance status on PPC vs x86. I reused http://

Re: [pcre-dev] Powerpc optimisation

2015-06-04 Thread Frederic Bonnard
And result file :) Foreword This page has been taken [1]here. pcre directory has been updated to use latest 8.37 instead of 8.32. The following is from the original author, taken as-is on the above page as a reminder. I used 3 VMs which I installed with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, one x86_64,