4.77. pcre

Bug Fixes

BZ#669413

A previous update enabled Unicode properties to support \p{..}, \P{..}, and \X escape sequences. However, compiling certain regular expressions which contained extended classes under a non-UTF-8 PCRE mode failed due to the compilation entering an infinite loop. This has been fixed in this update so that compiling such regular expressions completes as expected.

BZ#859959

Using the pcregrep tool with -M (mutli-line match) and -v (inverse match) options caused the pcregrep tool to loop infinitely. With this update, the pcregrep multi-line loop logic has been fixed to advance in the input stream properly if inverted matching is requested, and it is now possible to use the "pcregrep -Mv" command.

BZ#866520

Previously, matching a regular expression with Unicode properties in a non-UTF-8 mode against a string with non-ASCII characters, caused an unexpected termination with a segmentation fault in the PCRE library. This update fixes back-tracking in non-UTF-8 mode, and the PCRE library no longer crashes in the aforementioned scenario.