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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-7246: Vulnerability in PCRE

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-7246: Vulnerability in PCRE

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/23/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/21/2017
Modified
02/01/2022

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the pcre32_copy_substring function in pcre_get.c in libpcre1 in PCRE 8.40 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (WRITE of size 268) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted file.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-pcre-8-41-0-175-3-23-0-3-0

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