CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-8786
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-05-05
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
pcre2test.c in PCRE2 10.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression.
Affected configurations
• pcre pcre2 10.23
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/29/libpcre-heap-based-buffer-overflow-write-in-pcre2test-c/ Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2079 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-09 security.gentoo.org
- https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=696 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=697 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/29/libpcre-heap-based-buffer-overflow-write-in-pcre2test-c/ Exploit, Patch, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2079 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-09 security.gentoo.org
- https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=696 Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=697 Patch, Vendor Advisory