Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package pcre3  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1704-PCRE3-628602
  • published28 Mar 2016
  • disclosed28 Mar 2016

Introduced: 28 Mar 2016

CVE-2014-9769  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pcre3 package and not the pcre3 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

pcre_jit_compile.c in PCRE 8.35 does not properly use table jumps to optimize nested alternatives, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted string, as demonstrated by packets encountered by Suricata during use of a regular expression in an Emerging Threats Open ruleset.