CVE-2014-8964

Impact:
Low
Public Date:
2014-11-18
CWE:
CWE-119
Bugzilla:
1166147: CVE-2014-8964 pcre: incorrect handling of zero-repeat assertion conditions
A flaw was found in the way PCRE handled certain malformed regular expressions. This issue could cause an application (for example, Konqueror) linked against PCRE to crash while parsing malicious regular expressions.

Find out more about CVE-2014-8964 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (pcre) RHSA-2015:0330 2015-03-05

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux php54-php Will not fix
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux php55-php Will not fix
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 pcre Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 pcre Not affected

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