CVE-2014-8964
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
5.0
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in PCRE 8.36 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or have other unspecified impact via a crafted regular expression, related to an assertion that allows zero repeats.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| fedora | 19 | affected | |
| fedora | 20 | affected | |
| fedora | 21 | affected | |
| suse | 13.1 | affected | |
| suse | 13.2 | affected | |
| rhel | 7.0 | affected | |
| rhel | 7.3 | affected | |
| rhel | 7.4 | affected | |
| rhel | 7.5 | affected | |
| rhel | 7.6 | affected | |
| rhel | 7.7 | affected | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 2:8.35-3.3 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 2:8.35-3.3 |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-8964.html
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0534.html
- http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1546
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145843.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147474.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147511.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147516.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00014.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0330.html
- http://www.exim.org/viewvc/pcre?view=revision&revision=1513
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:002
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:137
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/21/6
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71206
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1166147
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-8964
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.