CVE-2008-2371

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-07-07 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in pcre_compile.c in the Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library 7.7 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a regular expression that begins with an option and contains multiple branches.

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 6.06, 7.04, 7.10, 8.04, 9.10
Debian Linux: 4.0
Fedoraproject Fedora: 8, 9
Opensuse: 10.3
Pcre: 7.7
PHP: from 5.2.0 through 5.2.7

References

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228091
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glib/2.16/glib-2.16.4.changes
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00001.html
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124654546101607&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125631037611762&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/30916
http://secunia.com/advisories/30944
http://secunia.com/advisories/30945
http://secunia.com/advisories/30958
http://secunia.com/advisories/30961

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