Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-7186  

libpcre1 in PCRE 8.40 and libpcre2 in PCRE2 10.23 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation violation for read access, and application crash) by triggering an invalid Unicode property lookup.

Severity Medium

Remote Yes

Type Denial of service

Description

libpcre1 in PCRE 8.40 and libpcre2 in PCRE2 10.23 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation violation for read access, and application crash) by triggering an invalid Unicode property lookup.

AVG-223 pcre2 10.23-1 10.30-1 Medium Fixed

AVG-222 pcre 8.40-1 8.41-1 Medium Fixed

12 Oct 2017 ASA-201710-18 AVG-223 pcre2 Medium denial of service

18 Jul 2017 ASA-201707-20 AVG-222 pcre Medium multiple issues

https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/pcre_ucd.c?r1=1490&r2=1688&sortby=date
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2052
https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/03/14/libpcre-invalid-memory-read-in-match-pcre_exec-c/
https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2/code/trunk/src/pcre2_internal.h?r1=600&r2=670&sortby=date
https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2/code/trunk/src/pcre2_ucd.c?r1=316&r2=670&sortby=date