CVE-2014-8964

2014-12-1600:00:00

ubuntu.com

5 Medium

CVSS2

Access Vector

NETWORK

Access Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

0.029 Low

EPSS

Percentile

90.6%

JSON

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.

Bugs

Notes

Author	Note
seth-arnold	exploiting this requires allowing untrusted input as the regular expression; that’s usually not allowed for performance reasons but the regex engine shouldn’t allow overflows on untrusted inputs.
mdeslaur	reproducer in upstream bug does not reproduce in precise

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu15.04noarchmariadb-10.0< 10.0.20-0ubuntu0.15.04.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu15.10noarchmariadb-10.0< 10.0.20-0ubuntu0.15.04.1UNKNOWN
ubuntu14.04noarchpcre3< 1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1UNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
ubuntu	15.04	noarch	mariadb-10.0	< 10.0.20-0ubuntu0.15.04.1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	15.10	noarch	mariadb-10.0	< 10.0.20-0ubuntu0.15.04.1	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	14.04	noarch	pcre3	< 1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1	UNKNOWN