What does this mean to someone with a public facing website that uses PHP w/ Apache or Nginx?
Until PCRE or PHP release a patch for this, you remain vulnerable. You'd want to defend against this at the web server level -- think `MOD_SECURITY` rules that scan requests, look for known "bad" regular expressions, and then stop that request from reaching the PHP application. If you have a good hosting company hopefully they're already doing this for you.