CVE-2017-8786
critical
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.8
Description
pcre2test.c in PCRE2 10.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
SUSE Affected 1 release
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| — | Affected | — |
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 10.31-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 10.31-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 10.31-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 10.31-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 10.31-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| pcre | pcre2 | 10.23 | |
References
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/29/libpcre-heap-based-buffer-overflow-write-in-pcre2test-c/
- https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2079
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-09
- https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=696
- https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=697
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-8786.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-8786
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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