CVE-2014-9769
pcre_jit_compile.c in PCRE 8.35 does not properly use table jumps to optimize nested alternatives, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack memory corruption) or possibly have
02 Description
pcre_jit_compile.c in PCRE 8.35 does not properly use table jumps to optimize nested alternatives, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack memory corruption) or possibly have
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
- 2.35% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 83.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.3 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. 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
- 2016-03-28 16:00Z10 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 13:55Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2016-03-28
- Assigning CNA
- debian
- 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
- 00730e383cf1422025ec00a6854e7e7b51e12e26100299ec06fe77618e8722dc
05 Affected products
06 References
- vcs.pcre.orghttp://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1475
- www.securityfocus.com85570http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85570
- redmine.openinfosecfoundation.orghttps://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/1693
- www.securitytracker.com1035424http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035424
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20160326 CVE Request: pcre: Segmentation fault on certain input to regular expressions with nested alternatives when JIT is usedhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/26/1
- bugs.debian.orghttps://bugs.debian.org/819050
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- pcre3 Fixed in 2:8.38-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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