Out-of-Bounds Affecting pcre3 package, versions <7.6-1


medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 53.34% (98th percentile)
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NVD
7.3 high

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-PCRE3-345522
  • published 18 Feb 2008
  • disclosed 18 Feb 2008

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:10 pcre3 to version 7.6-1 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.

Buffer overflow in PCRE before 7.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression containing a character class with a large number of characters with Unicode code points greater than 255.