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add a check for pcre jit #21

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@jvoisin jvoisin commented Jul 9, 2020

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bef commented Aug 8, 2021

Is there an issue with pcre.jit other than CVE-2019-20838, which has since been fixed?

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jvoisin commented Aug 10, 2021

PCRE's JIT is allocating a RWX memory area, weakening "Executable space protection" and making it easier to exploit memory corruption without resorting to ROP.

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