Out-of-Bounds Affecting pcre3 package, versions <2:8.39-3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.78% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-PCRE3-345434
  • published20 Mar 2017
  • disclosed20 Mar 2017

Introduced: 20 Mar 2017

CVE-2017-7186  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 pcre3 to version 2:8.39-3 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pcre3 package and not the pcre3 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

libpcre1 in PCRE 8.40 and libpcre2 in PCRE2 10.23 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation violation for read access, and application crash) by triggering an invalid Unicode property lookup.