CVE-2008-0674 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Pcre

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer7 documents7 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
21.0%
top 4.35%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Debian Pcre3Pcre
Timeline
PublishedFeb 18
Latest updateMay 1

Description

Buffer overflow in PCRE before 7.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression containing a character class with a large number of characters with Unicode code points greater than 255.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:P/I:P/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 6.4

Affected Packages2 packages

▶debiandebian/pcre3< pcre3 7.6-1 (bookworm)
▶NVDpcre/pcre7.5

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-8m98-qjh5-33jj: Buffer overflow in PCRE before 7↗2022-05-01
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OSV
CVE-2008-0674: Buffer overflow in PCRE before 7↗2008-02-18
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
PCRE vulnerability↗2008-02-21
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Red Hat
pcre: buffer overflow via large UTF-8 character class↗2008-01-08
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Debian
CVE-2008-0674: pcre3 - Buffer overflow in PCRE before 7.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary ...↗2008
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2008-0674 pcre: buffer overflow via large UTF-8 character class↗2008-02-06
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