Out-of-bounds Read Affecting pcre3 package, versions *
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1.03% (84th
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-PCRE3-572353
- published 15 Jun 2020
- disclosed 15 Jun 2020
Introduced: 15 Jun 2020
CVE-2019-20838 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:11 pcre3.
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:11 relevant fixed versions and status.
libpcre in PCRE before 8.43 allows a subject buffer over-read in JIT when UTF is disabled, and \X or \R has more than one fixed quantifier, a related issue to CVE-2019-20454.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2019-20838
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-20838
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT211931
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212147
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/Dec/32
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Feb/14
- https://bugs.gentoo.org/717920
- https://www.pcre.org/original/changelog.txt
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772@%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
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