CVE-2017-8399
critical
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
9.8
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."
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
97%
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 0 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 0 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 0 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 0 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 0 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| pcre | pcre2 | {"endExcluding":"10.30"} | 10.30 |
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98315
- https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=783
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-09
- https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2/code/tags/pcre2-10.30/ChangeLog?revision=854&view=markup
- https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=674
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-8399
CWEs
CWE-119
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
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