CVE-2014-8964
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5 · Memory corruption
5CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexityLow
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impactNone
Integrity impactNone
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)7%
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0534.htmlAdvisory
- http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1546Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145843.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147474.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147511.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147516.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00014.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0330.htmlAdvisory