Out-of-Bounds Affecting pcre3 package, versions <7.6-2.1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.36% (74th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN10-PCRE3-345494
  • published7 Jul 2008
  • disclosed7 Jul 2008

Introduced: 7 Jul 2008

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

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 pcre3 to version 7.6-2.1 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.

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.

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