vulnerability

Ubuntu: USN-5665-1 (CVE-2017-7186): PCRE vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 19, 2017
Added
Oct 11, 2022
Modified
Aug 18, 2025

Description

It was discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular expressions.
A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using PCRE to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-6004)

It was discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain Unicode encoding. A
remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using PCRE to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-7186)

Solution

ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libpcre3
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