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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-8786: Vulnerability in PCRE

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2017-8786: Vulnerability in PCRE

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/04/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
09/19/2017
Modified
02/17/2022

Description

pcre2test.c in PCRE2 10.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-pcre-8-41-0-175-3-23-0-3-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-4-upgrade-entire-11-4-11-4-0-0-1-15-0

References

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