CVE-2017-8399: pcre pcre2

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-8399 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability in pcre pcre2. EPSS estimates a 3.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 01-05-2017
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 05-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

PCRE2 before 10.30 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a stack-based buffer overflow in pcre2_match.c, related to a "pattern with very many captures."

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.