CVE-2017-8786: pcre pcre2

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-8786 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) vulnerability in pcre pcre2. EPSS estimates a 4.07% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 90.5% of scored vulnerabilities. 2 public exploits are recorded.

Timeline

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

Description

pcre2test.c in PCRE2 10.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression.

• 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.