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CVE-2008-2371

Date: July 7, 2008

Heap-based buffer overflow in pcre_compile.c in the Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library 7.7 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a regular expression that begins with an option and contains multiple branches.

Severity Score

7.3

Related Resources (48)

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30990

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00123.html

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1297

Url: https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2008-2371

Url: http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200807-03.xml

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0833

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/39300

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30972

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32454

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/31200

Url: http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1602

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30087

Url: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216

Url: http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124654546101607&w=2

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30916

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2371

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30958

Url: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glib/2.16/glib-2.16.4.changes

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/35074

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2006

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2005

Url: http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-624-2

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:023

Url: http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-133A.html

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2780

Url: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228091

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32222

Url: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00001.html

Url: http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-05.xml

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/32746

Url: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00105.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/35650

Url: http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:147

Url: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30961

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31681

Url: http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125631037611762&w=2

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-624-1

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30944

Url: http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0305

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30967

Url: http://secunia.com/advisories/30945

Url: http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2336

Url: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549

Url: http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-628-1

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497828/100/0/threaded

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2008-2371

Severity Score

7.3

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CWE-119

Out-of-bounds Write

CWE-787

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.3
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	LOW
Integrity (I):	LOW
Availability (A):	LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:	7.5
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	PARTIAL
Integrity (I):	PARTIAL
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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Date: July 7, 2008

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