Out-of-Bounds Affecting pcre3 package, versions <2:8.35-3.3
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
2.76% (91st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-PCRE3-345551
- published 16 Dec 2014
- disclosed 16 Dec 2014
Introduced: 16 Dec 2014
CVE-2014-8964 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:10 pcre3 to version 2:8.35-3.3 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.
Heap-based buffer overflow in PCRE 8.36 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or have other unspecified impact via a crafted regular expression, related to an assertion that allows zero repeats.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8964
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145843.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147474.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147511.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147516.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0534.html
- http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1546
- http://www.exim.org/viewvc/pcre?view=revision&revision=1513
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00014.html
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/21/6
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1166147
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0330.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71206
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2014-8964
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:002
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:137
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