CVE-2008-0674
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 5.9%EU EUVD
Buffer overflow in PCRE before 7.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression containing a character class with a large number of characters with Unicode code points greater than 255.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 5.9% (93th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-0684)
- Published
- February 18, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-0684 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- pcre / pcre
References
- http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.14/glib-2.14.6.news
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Jul/msg00003.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Aug/msg00001.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00008.html
- http://pcre.org/changelog.txt
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28923
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28957
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28960
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28985
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28996
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29027
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29048
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29175
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29267
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29282
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30048
- http://secunia.com/advisories/30345
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31326
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32222
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32746
- http://secunia.com/advisories/36096
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-24.xml
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-05.xml
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3757
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0086
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0086
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0176
- http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1499
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:053
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/02/2
- http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488927/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492535/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27786
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29009
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31681
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022674
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-218A.html(US Government Resource)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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