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


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.67% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-PCRE-10078099
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed23 Mar 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 23 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-7245  (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. Stack-based buffer overflow in the pcre32_copy_substring function in pcre_get.c in libpcre1 in PCRE 8.40 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (WRITE of size 4) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1