CVEvulnerability
CVE-2014-9769
7.3 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-03-28
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
pcre_jit_compile.c in PCRE 8.35 does not properly use table jumps to optimize nested alternatives, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted string, as demonstrated by packets encountered by Suricata during use of a regular expression in an Emerging Threats Open ruleset.
Affected configurations
• pcre pcre 8.35
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1475 vcs.pcre.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/26/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85570 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035424 www.securitytracker.com
- https://bugs.debian.org/819050 bugs.debian.org
- https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/1693 redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org
- http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1475 vcs.pcre.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/26/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85570 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035424 www.securitytracker.com
- https://bugs.debian.org/819050 bugs.debian.org
- https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/1693 redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org