CVE-2014-8964

PCRE < 8.36 - Heap-Based Buffer Overflow via Zero Repeat Assertion

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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 (16)

Core 16
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147474.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00014.html
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71206
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0534.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147511.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145843.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/21/6
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0330.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_fedora
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147516.html
Broken Link vendor-advisory x_refsource_mandriva
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:002
Broken Link vendor-advisory x_refsource_mandriva
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:137
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1166147
Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1546
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02

Scores

EPSS 0.0206
EPSS Percentile 84.1%

Details

CWE
CWE-119
Status published
Products (23)
fedoraproject/fedora 19
fedoraproject/fedora 20
fedoraproject/fedora 21
mariadb/mariadb 10.0.0 - 10.0.18
opensuse/opensuse 13.1
opensuse/opensuse 13.2
oracle/solaris 11.2
pcre/pcre < 8.36
redhat/enterprise_linux_desktop 7.0
redhat/enterprise_linux_eus 7.3
... and 13 more
Published Dec 16, 2014
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026