Vulnerability CVE-2017-8399
Published: 2017-05-01

Description:
PCRE2 before 10.30 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a stack-based buffer overflow in pcre2_match.c, related to a "pattern with very many captures."

Type:

CWE-119

 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
PCRE -> Pcre2 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98315
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=783
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-09
https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2/code/tags/pcre2-10.30/ChangeLog?revision=854&view=markup
https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=674
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