CVE-2017-8399

9.8 CRITICAL

Published: May 01, 2017 Modified: May 13, 2026

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."

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CVSS v3.x Details

0.0 Low Medium High Critical 10.0

Vector String

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98315

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory VDB Entry

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=783

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-09

Source: cve@mitre.org

Third Party Advisory

https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2/code/tags/pcre2-10.30/ChangeLog?revision=854&view=markup

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=674

Source: cve@mitre.org

Patch Vendor Advisory

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98315