CVE-2008-2371
CVE-2008-2371
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This page shows selected source facts. See the linked advisories for the complete description and affected versions.
Heap-based buffer overflow in pcre_compile.c in the Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library 7.7 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a regular expression that begins with an option and contains multiple branches.
EPSS 6.7% · Fix available
- Published
- Updated
Stack: system
Affected products and versions
Original sources
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2005
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:147
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32746
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228091
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125631037611762&w=2
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2006
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-05.xml
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124654546101607&w=2
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31681
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30972
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-624-2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32454
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30944
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30958
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35074
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-628-1
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39300
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00105.html
- http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glib/2.16/glib-2.16.4.changes
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-624-1
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30967
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2371