CVE-2014-8964

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.

Category

5.0
CVSS
Severity: Medium
CVSS 2.0 •
EPSS 3.96% Top 15%
Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org Vendor Advisory opensuse.org Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org Vendor Advisory redhat.com Vendor Advisory fedoraproject.org Vendor Advisory mandriva.com Vendor Advisory mandriva.com Vendor Advisory gentoo.org
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

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

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2014-8964?
CVE-2014-8964 has been scored as a medium severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2014-8964?
To fix CVE-2014-8964, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2014-8964 being actively exploited in the wild?
It is possible that CVE-2014-8964 is being exploited or will be exploited in a near future based on public information. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~4% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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