CVE-2014-9769
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Mar 28, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Mar 28, 2016
Description
pcre_jit_compile.c in PCRE 8.35 does not properly use table jumps to optimize nested alternatives, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted string, as demonstrated by packets encountered by Suricata during use of a regular expression in an Emerging Threats Open ruleset.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1475
- 85570vdb-entry
- https://redmine.openinfosecfoundation.org/issues/1693
- 1035424vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20160326 CVE Request: pcre: Segmentation fault on certain input to regular expressions with nested alternatives when JIT is usedmailing-list
- https://bugs.debian.org/819050
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