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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2014-8964

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.

MEDIUM 5.0EPSS 6.50%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (6.50%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

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.

CVSS 2.0
5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
EPSS
6.50% probability · 93th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-119
Affected
pcre/pcre · mariadb/mariadb · fedoraproject/fedora · opensuse/opensuse · oracle/solaris · redhat/enterprise linux desktop · redhat/enterprise linux eus · redhat/enterprise linux server · redhat/enterprise linux server aus · redhat/enterprise linux server tus · redhat/enterprise linux workstation
Source
cve@mitre.org

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.