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CVE-2017-8786

critical

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.

References

https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=697

https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=696

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-05-05

Updated: 2017-10-10

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