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01 Record

CVE-2014-8964

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

UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector

02 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

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
6.50% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
EPSS percentile
Equal to or higher than the score of 93.6% 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 2026-06-17.
Red Hat severity
Low. 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
2014-12-16 18:00Z11 YR AGO
Last updated
2024-08-06 13:33Z2 YR AGO
Reserved
2014-11-18
Assigning CNA
mitre
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
f51cffec2dfbccfad00be9bfa9692a022de0bb277b8a6818533b7bb3e47e6ae6

05 Affected products

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
fedoraprojectfedoraNot specified—
mariadbmariadbNot specified—
opensuseopensuseNot specified—
oraclesolarisNot specified—
pcrepcreNot specified—
redhatenterprise_linuxNot specified—
redhatenterprise_linux_desktopNot specified—
redhatenterprise_linux_eusNot specified—
redhatenterprise_linux_serverNot specified—
redhatenterprise_linux_server_ausNot specified—
redhatenterprise_linux_server_tusNot specified—
redhatenterprise_linux_workstationNot specified—
redhatrhel_software_collectionsNot specified—

06 References

07 Fixed in

Debian 12

  • pcre3
    Fixed in 2:8.35-3.3

Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

  • pcre3
    Fixed in 1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1

Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.

A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.