CVE-2008-0674

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-02-18 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

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.

Affected products

Pcre: through 7.5

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

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