Out-of-Bounds Affecting pcre package, versions [8.32,8.38)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.65% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PCRE-2319134
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed16 Dec 2014
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Dec 2014

CVE-2014-8964  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade pcre to version 8.38 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. 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 (such as "((?=(?(?=(?(?=(?(?=())))*))))){2}" ), related to an assertion that allows zero repeats.

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