CVE-2014-8964

Description

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, related to an assertion that allows zero repeats.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1166147

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71206

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/21/6

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0330.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00014.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147516.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147511.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147474.html

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145843.html

http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1546

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0534.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3