UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8399

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8399

    Published: 1 May 2017Last Modified: 16 Jul 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-8399

    Summary:

    Details: PCRE2 before 10.30 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a stack-based buffer overflow in pcre2_match.c, related to a "pattern with very many captures."

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8399, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8399

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: pcre2

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -10.21-1

    Affected versions

    10.20-1

    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
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High