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Gentoo: PCRE Buffer overflow

LinuxSecurity.com: A buffer overflow vulnerability has been discovered in PCRE, allowing for the execution of arbitrary code and a Denial of Service.

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dumpelf

DUMPELF(1)						    Documentation for pax-utils 						DUMPELF(1)

NAME

       dumpelf - dump internal ELF structure

SYNOPSIS

       dumpelf [options] ELFs

DESCRIPTION

       dumpelf is a user-space utility to dump all of the internal ELF structures into the equivalent C structures for fun debugging and/or
       reference purposes.

OPTIONS

       -h, --help
	   Show condensed usage and exit

       -V, --version
	   Print version and exit

       -v, --verbose
	   Be verbose (can be used more than once)

HOMEPAGE

       http://hardened.gentoo.org/pax-utils.xml

REPORTING BUGS

       Please include as much information as possible (using any available debugging options) and send bug reports to the maintainers (see the
       AUTHORS section). Please use the Gentoo bugzilla at http://bugs.gentoo.org/ if possible.

SEE ALSO

       chpax(1), dumpelf(1), paxctl(1), pspax(1), readelf(1), scanelf(1)

AUTHORS

       Ned Ludd <solar@gentoo.org>
	   Maintainer

       Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
	   Maintainer

       Fabian Groffen <grobian@gentoo.org>
	   Mach-O Maintainer

NOTES

	1. http://hardened.gentoo.org/pax-utils.xml

	2. http://bugs.gentoo.org/

pax-utils 0.2.3 						    03/03/2011								DUMPELF(1)

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