CVE-2008-0674
Buffer overflow in PCRE before 7.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression containing a character class with a large number of characters with Unicode code points
02 Description
Buffer overflow in PCRE before 7.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression containing a character class with a large number of characters with Unicode code points
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 5.91% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 93.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2008-02-18 22:00Z18 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 07:54Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2008-02-11
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 4c64f57f48a85a424c30b6adc7c8c55f64207331be8a130821de2ea722a1a008
05 Affected products
06 References
- secunia.com29267http://secunia.com/advisories/29267
- www.vupen.comADV-2008-1412http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1412
- support.apple.comhttp://support.apple.com/kb/HT3757
- www.securityfocus.com20080523 rPSA-2008-0176-1 php php-cgi php-imap php-mcrypt php-mysql php-mysqli php-pgsql php-soap php-xsl php5 php5-cgi php5-imap php5-mcrypt php5-mysql php5-mysqli php5-pear php5-pgsql php5-soap php5-xslhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492535/100/0/threaded
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2008-1533https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00371.html
- secunia.com28923http://secunia.com/advisories/28923
- secunia.com32746http://secunia.com/advisories/32746
- secunia.com29048http://secunia.com/advisories/29048
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-200803-24http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-24.xml
- www.debian.orgDSA-1499http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1499
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2008-07-31http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Jul/msg00003.html
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-200811-05http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-05.xml
- bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431660
- ftp.gnome.orghttp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.14/glib-2.14.6.news
- secunia.com28957http://secunia.com/advisories/28957
- www.securityfocus.com31681http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31681
- secunia.com36096http://secunia.com/advisories/36096
- www.securityfocus.com29009http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29009
- secunia.com29027http://secunia.com/advisories/29027
- secunia.com29282http://secunia.com/advisories/29282
- www.vupen.comADV-2008-2268http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2268
- secunia.com28960http://secunia.com/advisories/28960
- secunia.com30345http://secunia.com/advisories/30345
- www.securityfocus.com20080228 rPSA-2008-0086-1 pcrehttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488927/100/0/threaded
- wiki.rpath.comhttp://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0176
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20080502 CVE Request (PHP)http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/02/2
- secunia.com28996http://secunia.com/advisories/28996
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2009-08-05-1http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Aug/msg00001.html
- www.php.nethttp://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
- wiki.rpath.comhttp://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0086
- www.mandriva.comMDVSA-2008:053http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:053
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SR:2008:004http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00008.html
- secunia.com32222http://secunia.com/advisories/32222
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2008-1842https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00181.html
- www.vupen.comADV-2008-0592http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0592
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.compcre-characterclass-bo(40505)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40505
- secunia.com29175http://secunia.com/advisories/29175
- www.securitytracker.com1022674http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022674
- secunia.com28985http://secunia.com/advisories/28985
- secunia.com31326http://secunia.com/advisories/31326
- www.securityfocus.com27786http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27786
- issues.rpath.comhttps://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2503
- pcre.orghttp://pcre.org/changelog.txt
- www.vupen.comADV-2008-2780http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2780
- www.redhat.comFEDORA-2008-1783https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00632.html
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-581-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/581-1/
- issues.rpath.comhttps://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2223
- www.vupen.comADV-2008-0570http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0570
- lists.apple.comAPPLE-SA-2008-10-09http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html
- support.apple.comhttp://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216
- www.vupen.comADV-2009-2172http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2172
- www.us-cert.govTA09-218Ahttp://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-218A.html
- wiki.rpath.comhttp://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0086
- secunia.com30048http://secunia.com/advisories/30048
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- pcre3 Fixed in 7.6-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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