Philip Hazel · Pcre · CVE-2008-1026
**Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions**
Safari versions prior to 3.1.1
**Description**
The issue is related to an integer overflow in the PCRE regular expression compiler, which can be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. This is achieved through a regular expression with large, nested repetition counts, triggering a heap-based buffer overflow.
**Recommendations**
For versions prior to 3.1.1, update to version 3.1.1 or later to resolve the issue.