Out-of-Bounds Affecting pcre package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
3.61% (88th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-PCRE-10078092
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed7 Jul 2008
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 7 Jul 2008

CVE-2008-2371  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for pcre.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. 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.

References

CVSS Base Scores

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