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CVE-2017-8399

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."

Published

2017-05-01T18:59:00.403

Last Modified

2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 9.8 (CRITICAL)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: PARTIAL
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

6.4

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-119

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	pcre	pcre2	< 10.30	Yes

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98315 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=783 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-09 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2/code/tags/pcre2-10.30/ChangeLog?revision=854&view=markup ([email protected])
https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=674 Patch, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98315 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=783 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-09 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2/code/tags/pcre2-10.30/ChangeLog?revision=854&view=markup (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=674 Patch, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)