Buffer overflow in Pcre
CVE-2008-2371
Heap-based buffer overflow in pcre_compile.c in the Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library 7.7 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a regular expression that begins with an option and contains multiple branches.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.067 (93.7th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 94th percentile — 93.7% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.067 · newest: 0.067 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Pcre — versions 7.7
- PHP
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 6.06, 7.04, 7.10
- Debian Linux — versions 4.0
- Fedoraproject Fedora — versions 8, 9
- openSUSE — versions 10.3
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2005 (Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, Broken Link)
- secunia.com/advisories/32746 (Not Applicable, third-party-advisory)
- bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi (Exploit, Issue Tracking)
- marc.info/ (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
- support.apple.com/kb/HT3549 (Third Party Advisory)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2006 (Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-05.xml (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory)
- marc.info/ (vendor-advisory, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/31681 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)