CVE-2014-8964

Medium

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.0
Exploit probability—
ProductPcre
PublishedDec 16, 2014
First seenDec 16, 2014

How to fix

Update
  • mariadb mariadb10.0.18 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
pcre pcrev ≤ 8.36—
mariadb mariadb10.0.0 ≤ v < 10.0.1810.0.18
fedoraproject fedora19, 20, 21—
opensuse opensuse13.1, 13.2—
oracle solaris11.2—
redhat enterprise_linux_desktop7.0—
redhat enterprise_linux_eus7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.6, 7.7—
redhat enterprise_linux_server7.0—
redhat enterprise_linux_server_aus7.3, 7.4, 7.6, 7.7—
redhat enterprise_linux_server_tus7.3, 7.6, 7.7—
redhat enterprise_linux_workstation7.0—

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