VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2008-0674
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.
HIGH 7.5EPSS 5.91%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (5.91%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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 2.0
- 7.5 HIGHAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- EPSS
- 5.91% probability · 93th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-119
- Affected
- pcre/pcre
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.14/glib-2.14.6.news
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Jul/msg00003.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Aug/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00008.html
- http://pcre.org/changelog.txt
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28923
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28957
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28960
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28985
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28996
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29027
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29048
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29175
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29267
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29282
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30048
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30345
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31326
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32222
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32746
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36096
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-24.xml
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-05.xml
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3757
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0086
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0086
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0176
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1499
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.