Vulnerability CVE-2014-8964
Published: 2014-12-16

Description:
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.

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
PCRE -> Perl-compatible regular expression library 
PCRE -> Perl compatible regular expression library 

 References:
http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0534.html
http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1546
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145843.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147474.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147511.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147516.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00014.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0330.html
http://www.exim.org/viewvc/pcre?view=revision&revision=1513
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:002
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:137
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/21/6
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71206
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1166147
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02
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