Heap-based buffer overflow in PCRE - CVE-2014-8964
Published: December 16, 2014 / Updated: August 3, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU33291
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-8964
CWE-ID: CWE-122
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: PCRE
Affected software:
PCRE
PCRE
Detailed vulnerability description
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.
How to mitigate CVE-2014-8964
Update to version 8.37.
Sources
- 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