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CVE-2017-8399

critical

Description

PCRE2 before 10.30 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a stack-based buffer overflow in pcre2_match.c, related to a "pattern with very many captures."

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-09

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=783

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98315

https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=674

https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2/code/tags/pcre2-10.30/ChangeLog?revision=854&view=markup

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-05-01

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.02737