Out-of-Bounds Affecting pcre package, versions [0,8.36)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.35% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PCRE-2319156
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed28 Mar 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Mar 2016

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

How to fix?

Upgrade pcre to version 8.36 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds 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.

CVSS Base Scores

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