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CVE-2008-2371

Published: 07/07/2008 Updated: 01/08/2022
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 668
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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Vulnerability Summary

Heap-based buffer overflow in pcre_compile.c in the Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library 7.7 allows context-dependent malicious users to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a regular expression that begins with an option and contains multiple branches.

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debian debian linux 4.0

canonical ubuntu linux 7.04

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canonical ubuntu linux 6.06

fedoraproject fedora 9

fedoraproject fedora 8

opensuse opensuse 10.3

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Debian CVElist Bug Report Logs: CVE-2008-2371: heap-based buffer overflow in PCRE
Debian Bug report logs - #488919 CVE-2008-2371: heap-based buffer overflow in PCRE Package: pcre3; Maintainer for pcre3 is Matthew Vernon <matthew@debianorg>; Reported by: Sebastian Dröge <slomo@circular-chaosorg> Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 04:45:02 UTC Severity: grave Tags: patch Found in version 76-2 Fixed in vers ...
Ubuntu Security Notice: pcre3 vulnerability
Tavis Ormandy discovered that the PCRE library did not correctly handle certain in-pattern options An attacker could cause applications linked against pcre3 to crash, leading to a denial of service ...
Ubuntu Security Notice: erlang vulnerability
USN-624-1 fixed a vulnerability in PCRE This update provides the corresponding update for Erlang ...
Ubuntu Security Notice: php5 vulnerabilities
It was discovered that PHP did not properly check the length of the string parameter to the fnmatch function An attacker could cause a denial of service in the PHP interpreter if a script passed untrusted input to the fnmatch function (CVE-2007-4782) ...
Debian Security Advisories: DSA-1602-1 pcre3 -- buffer overflow
Tavis Ormandy discovered that PCRE, the Perl-Compatible Regular Expression library, may encounter a heap overflow condition when compiling certain regular expressions involving in-pattern options and branches, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution For the stable distribution (etch), this problem has been fixed in version 67+74-4 For ...

References

CWE-787http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228091http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1602http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00001.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/30916http://secunia.com/advisories/30944http://secunia.com/advisories/30958http://secunia.com/advisories/30961http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-624-1http://secunia.com/advisories/30967http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:147https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00123.htmlhttp://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200807-03.xmlhttp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glib/2.16/glib-2.16.4.changeshttp://secunia.com/advisories/31200http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-628-1http://secunia.com/advisories/30972http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30087http://secunia.com/advisories/30990https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00105.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/30945http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.htmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31681http://secunia.com/advisories/32222http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216http://secunia.com/advisories/32454http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0305http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:023http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2336http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1297http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-133A.htmlhttp://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/35074http://secunia.com/advisories/35650http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124654546101607&w=2http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125631037611762&w=2http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-624-2http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0833http://secunia.com/advisories/39300http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2005http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2006http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2780http://secunia.com/advisories/32746http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-05.xmlhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497828/100/0/threadedhttps://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=488919https://nvd.nist.govhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/624-1/
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