CVE-2014-8964 in PCRE Perl-compatible Regular Expression Library

Summary

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.

Reservation

11/18/2014

Disclosure

12/16/2014

Entries

VulDB provides additional information and datapoints for this CVE:

ID	Vulnerability	CWE	Exp	Cou	CVE
73256	PCRE Perl-compatible Regular Expression Library memory corruption	119	Not defined	Not defined	CVE-2014-8964
68256	Philip Hazel PCRE pcre_exec.c memory corruption	119	Unproven	Official fix	CVE-2014-8964