Heap-based buffer overflow in PCRE - CVE-2014-8964

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in Heap-based buffer overflow in PCRE 8.36 and earlier. A remote attacker can use a crafted regular expression to trigger heap-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.

Affected software

How to mitigate CVE-2014-8964

External 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

Related Security Bulletins

• Heap-based buffer overflow in PCRE
• Heap-based buffer overflow in pcre (Alpine package)
• Amazon Linux AMI update for pcre
• Fedora 21 update for pcre
• Fedora 21 update for mingw-pcre
• Fedora EPEL 7 update for mingw-pcre