CVE-2017-8786

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    CVE-2017-8786

    Published: 5 May 2017Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: pcre2test.c in PCRE2 10.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression.

    References: https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-09, https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2079, https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/29/libpcre-heap-based-buffer-overflow-write-in-pcre2test-c/, https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=696, https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=697

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 08f2a603e8ab886d1074f6ebab787f0ab05f1c2e
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    10.23

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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