[Chicken-janitors] [Chicken-bugs] #351: Update the PCRE shipped with chicken (it has vulnerabilities)

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#351: Update the PCRE shipped with chicken (it has vulnerabilities)
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Reporter:  sjamaan   |       Owner:  felix         
    Type:  task      |      Status:  new           
Priority:  critical  |   Component:  infrastructure
 Version:  2.7       |    Keywords:                
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 There are some pretty serious vulnerabilities in PCRE versions before 7.3.
 The PCRE that ships with Chicken should be upgraded.

 Here's a list of vulnerabilities I saw in the CVE RSS feed today:
 * http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-1659
 * http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-1660
 * http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-1661
 * http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-1662
 * http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-4766
 * http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-4767
 * http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2007-4768

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