Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package pcre2 (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-PCRE2-654565
- published20 Mar 2017
- disclosed20 Mar 2017
Introduced: 20 Mar 2017
CVE-2017-7186 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pcre2 package and not the pcre2 package as distributed by Ubuntu.
libpcre1 in PCRE 8.40 and libpcre2 in PCRE2 10.23 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation violation for read access, and application crash) by triggering an invalid Unicode property lookup.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-7186
- https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2052
- https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2/code/trunk/src/pcre2_internal.h?r1=600&r2=670&sortby=date
- https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2/code/trunk/src/pcre2_ucd.c?r1=316&r2=670&sortby=date
- https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/pcre_internal.h?r1=1649&r2=1688&sortby=date
- https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/pcre_ucd.c?r1=1490&r2=1688&sortby=date
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-7186
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-7186
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-09
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-25
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/03/14/libpcre-invalid-memory-read-in-match-pcre_exec-c/
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97030