Vulnerability Details CVE-2017-8786
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.011
EPSS Ranking 77.2%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 9.8
CVSS v2 Score 7.5
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://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