VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2008-2371

CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability6.73%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2008-07-07
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

Primary references