CVE-2014-8964
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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.
Exploit probability
6.5%
Published
December 16, 2014
Required by
Not available
Last source change
April 16, 2026
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
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CVE-2014-8964
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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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- 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