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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…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 6.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.2% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 28 days later
· 28 days later
Published
- 10 years later
· 10 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.5% · top 6.2% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
16
- FEDORA-2014-17624 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- openSUSE-SU-2015:0858 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 71206 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- http://www.exim.org/viewvc/pcre?view=revision&revision=1513 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0534.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2014-17642 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2014-15573 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20141121 Re: CVE request: heap buffer overflow in PCRE (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- RHSA-2015:0330 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- FEDORA-2014-17626 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- MDVSA-2015:002 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- MDVSA-2015:137 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVAx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1166147 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1546 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- GLSA-201607-02 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2014-8791 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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