CVE Feed

    Dashboard / CVE / CVE-2014-8964

    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 assertion that allows zero repeats.

    Published:Nov 18, 2014
    Last Modified:Apr 12, 2025
    EPS:Dec 16, 2014
    EPSS Score:0.02089
    CVSS Score:5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Fedoraproject
    Product
    Fedora
    Vendor
    Mariadb
    Product
    Mariadb
    Vendor
    Opensuse
    Product
    Opensuse
    Vendor
    Oracle
    Product
    Solaris
    Vendor
    Pcre
    Product
    Pcre
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux Desktop
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux Eus
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux Server
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux Server Aus
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux Server Tus
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Enterprise Linux Workstation

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Related CVEs

    CVE-2026-54231 (CVSS 5.5) — A content injection vulnerability was found in the ABRT post-create event handler scripts in libreport. The ev…
    CVE-2026-54230 (CVSS 7) — A symlink following vulnerability was found in the ABRT post-create event handler scripts in libreport. Event …
    CVE-2026-35094 (CVSS 3.3) — A flaw was found in libinput. An attacker capable of deploying a Lua plugin file in specific system directorie…
    CVE-2026-35093 (CVSS 8.8) — A flaw was found in libinput. A local attacker who can place a specially crafted Lua bytecode file in certain …
    CVE-2024-3056 (CVSS 7.7) — A flaw was found in Podman. This issue may allow an attacker to create a specially crafted container that, whe…
    CVE-2024-6293 (CVSS 8.8) — Use after free in Dawn in Google Chrome prior to 126.0.6478.126 allowed a remote attacker to potentially explo…
    CVE-2024-6292 (CVSS 8.8) — Use after free in Dawn in Google Chrome prior to 126.0.6478.126 allowed a remote attacker to potentially explo…
    CVE-2024-6291 (CVSS 8.8) — Use after free in Swiftshader in Google Chrome prior to 126.0.6478.126 allowed a remote attacker to potentiall…
    CVE-2024-6290 (CVSS 8.8) — Use after free in Dawn in Google Chrome prior to 126.0.6478.126 allowed a remote attacker to potentially explo…
    CVE-2024-38277 (CVSS 5.4) — A unique key should be generated for a user's QR login key and their auto-login key, so the same key cannot be…

    References

    http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0534.html
    http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1546
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145843.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147474.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147511.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147516.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00014.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0330.html
    http://www.exim.org/viewvc/pcre?view=revision&revision=1513
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:002
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:137
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/21/6
    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71206
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1166147
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02
    http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0534.html
    http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1546
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145843.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147474.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147511.html
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147516.html
    http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00014.html
    http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0330.html
    http://www.exim.org/viewvc/pcre?view=revision&revision=1513
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:002
    http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:137
    http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/21/6
    http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html
    http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71206
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1166147
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High