CVE-2008-1026
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.8EPSS 4.8%EU EUVD
Integer overflow in the PCRE regular expression compiler (JavaScriptCore/pcre/pcre_compile.cpp) in Apple WebKit, as used in Safari before 3.1.1, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression with large, nested repetition counts, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.8 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 4.8% (92th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-1037)
- Published
- April 17, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-1037 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apple / mac os x
- apple / mac os x
- apple / mac os x server
- apple / mac os x server
- apple / safari
- apple / safari
- microsoft / windows vista
- microsoft / windows xp
References
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008//Jul/msg00001.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Apr/msg00001.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/29846
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31074
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3815
- http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1467(Patch)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490990/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28815
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019870
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1250/references
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2094/references
- http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-022(Patch)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/41859
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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