CVE-2008-2371
HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · Out-of-bounds write
7.5CVSS HIGH
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)7%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glib/2.16/glib-2.16.4.changesAdvisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00001.htmlAdvisory
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124654546101607&w=2Advisory
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125631037611762&w=2Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30916
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228091Exploit