CVE-2008-2371
Heap-based buffer overflow in pcre_compile.c in the Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library 7.7 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a regular expression that begins with an option and contains multiple branches.
- Score
- CVSS 2.0 7.5 High
- Status
- Modified - secalert@redhat.com
- Published
- 2008-07-07
- Last modified
- 2024-08-07
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787
Affected products
- Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
- Debian Linux (Debian)
- Fedora (Fedoraproject)
- Opensuse (Opensuse)
- Pcre (Pcre)
- Php (Php)
References
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228091
- http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glib/2.16/glib-2.16.4.changes
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00001.html
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124654546101607&w=2
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125631037611762&w=2
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30916
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30944
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30945
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30958
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30961
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30967
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30972
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30990
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31200
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32222
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32454
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32746
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35074
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35650
- http://secunia.com/advisories/39300
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-05.xml
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549
- http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-624-2
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0305
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1602
- http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200807-03.xml
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:147
