A flaw was found in the way PCRE handled certain malformed regular expressions. This issue could cause an application (for example, Konqueror) linked against PCRE to crash while parsing malicious regular expressions.
Find out more about CVE-2014-8964 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
| Base Score | 4.3 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | Medium |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | None |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
Find out more about Red Hat support for the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (pcre) | RHSA-2015:0330 | 2015-03-05 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux | php54-php | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux | php55-php | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | pcre | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | pcre | Not affected |
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