Is CVE-2014-8964 being actively exploited?

CVE-2014-8964 is not currently listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog.

What is the CVSS score for CVE-2014-8964?

CVE-2014-8964 has a CVSS 2.0 base score of 5.0 (MEDIUM).

CVE-2014-8964

MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 6.5%EU EUVD

Heap-based buffer overflow in PCRE 8.36 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or have other unspecified impact via a crafted regular expression, related to an assertion that allows zero repeats.

Key facts

CVSS score: 5.0 (v2.0)
Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weakness (CWE): CWE-119
EPSS score: 6.5% (94th percentile)
In CISA KEV: No
In EU EUVD: Yes (EUVD-2014-8791)
Published: December 16, 2014
NVD last modified: June 17, 2026
Status: Modified

EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)

This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2014-8791 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.

View on the EU Vulnerability Database

Affected products

fedoraproject / fedora
fedoraproject / fedora
fedoraproject / fedora
mariadb / mariadb
opensuse / opensuse
opensuse / opensuse
oracle / solaris
pcre / pcre
redhat / enterprise linux desktop
redhat / enterprise linux eus
redhat / enterprise linux eus
redhat / enterprise linux eus
redhat / enterprise linux eus
redhat / enterprise linux eus
redhat / enterprise linux server
redhat / enterprise linux server aus
redhat / enterprise linux server aus
redhat / enterprise linux server aus
redhat / enterprise linux server aus
redhat / enterprise linux server tus
redhat / enterprise linux server tus
redhat / enterprise linux server tus
redhat / enterprise linux workstation

Certified products that may be affected

1 FIPS 140 or Common Criteria certified product, from automated matching by sec-certs.org.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 - Red Hat, Inc. - Common Criteria CCEVS-VR-VID-11039-2020 - archived

References

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0534.html(Third Party Advisory)
http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1546(Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145843.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147474.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147511.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147516.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00014.html(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0330.html(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.exim.org/viewvc/pcre?view=revision&revision=1513(Broken Link)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:002(Broken Link)
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:137(Broken Link)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/21/6(Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html(Third Party Advisory)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71206(Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1166147(Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory)
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02(Third Party Advisory)

Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS

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