Amazon Linux AMI : pcre (ALAS-2018-1076)

The compilebranch function in pcrecompile.c in PCRE 8.x and pcre2compile.c in PCRE2 mishandles patterns containing an ACCEPT substring in conjunction with nested parentheses, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service stack-based buffer overflow via a...

CVE-2016-3191

The compilebranch function in pcrecompile.c in PCRE 8.x before 8.39 and pcre2compile.c in PCRE2 before 10.22 mishandles patterns containing an ACCEPT substring in conjunction with nested parentheses, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service stack-based...

FreeBSD : pcre -- heap overflow vulnerability (6900e6f1-4a79-11e5-9ad8-14dae9d210b8)

Guanxing Wen reports : PCRE library is prone to a vulnerability which leads to Heap Overflow. During the compilation of a malformed regular expression, more data is written on the malloced block than the expected size output by compileregex. The Heap Overflow vulnerability is caused by the...