CVE-2017-7186

Summary

CVECVE-2017-7186
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-03-20 00:59:00 UTC
Updated2018-08-17 10:29:00 UTC
Descriptionlibpcre1 in PCRE 8.40 and libpcre2 in PCRE2 10.23 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation violation for read access, and application crash) by triggering an invalid Unicode property lookup.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Pcre Pcre 8.40 All All All
Application Pcre Pcre 8.40 All All All
Application Pcre Pcre2 10.23 All All All
Application Pcre Pcre2 10.23 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
PCRE2: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201710-09) — Gentoo Security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Bug 2052 – invalid memory read in match (pcre_exec.c) CONFIRM bugs.exim.org Third Party Advisory
[pcre2] Diff of /code/trunk/src/pcre2_internal.h CONFIRM vcs.pcre.org Patch
[pcre] Diff of /code/trunk/pcre_ucd.c CONFIRM vcs.pcre.org Patch
PCRE: Multiple vulnerabilities (GLSA 201710-25) — Gentoo Security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
PCRE CVE-2017-7186 Denial of Service Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
libpcre: invalid memory read in match (pcre_exec.c) | agostino's blog MISC blogs.gentoo.org Patch, Third Party Advisory
[pcre2] Diff of /code/trunk/src/pcre2_ucd.c CONFIRM vcs.pcre.org Patch
[pcre] Diff of /code/trunk/pcre_internal.h CONFIRM vcs.pcre.org Patch
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 500516 Alpine Linux Security Update for pcre
  • 504275 Alpine Linux Security Update for pcre
  • 710531 Gentoo Linux PCRE2 Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 201710-09)
  • 710566 Gentoo Linux PCRE Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 201710-25)
  • 751361 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for pcre (SUSE-SU-2021:3652-1)
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