CVE-2008-0674

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    CVE-2008-0674

    Published: 18 Feb 2008Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Buffer overflow in PCRE before 7.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression containing a character class with a large number of characters with Unicode code points greater than 255.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/28923, http://secunia.com/advisories/28957, http://secunia.com/advisories/28960, http://secunia.com/advisories/28985, http://secunia.com/advisories/28996, http://secunia.com/advisories/29027, http://secunia.com/advisories/29048, http://secunia.com/advisories/29175, http://secunia.com/advisories/29267, http://secunia.com/advisories/29282, http://secunia.com/advisories/30048, http://secunia.com/advisories/30345, http://secunia.com/advisories/31326, http://secunia.com/advisories/32222, http://secunia.com/advisories/32746, http://secunia.com/advisories/36096, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-24.xml, http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-05.xml, http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1499, http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:053, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0570, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0592, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1412, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2268, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2780, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2172, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431660, http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.14/glib-2.14.6.news, http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Jul/msg00003.html, http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html, http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Aug/msg00001.html, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00008.html, http://pcre.org/changelog.txt, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216, http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3757, http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0086, http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0086, http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0176, http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/02/2, http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488927/100/0/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492535/100/0/threaded, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27786, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29009, http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31681, http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022674, http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-218A.html, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40505, https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2223, https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2503, https://usn.ubuntu.com/581-1/, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00371.html, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00632.html, https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00181.html

    Affected packages

    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