UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8786

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8786
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8786.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8786
Upstream
Published
2017-05-05T00:29:00Z
Modified
2025-10-24T04:46:18Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - negligible
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / pcre2

Package

Name
pcre2
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/pcre2@10.21-1?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

10.*

10.20-1
10.20-2
10.20-3
10.21-1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libpcre2-16-0",
            "binary_version": "10.21-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpcre2-32-0",
            "binary_version": "10.21-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpcre2-8-0",
            "binary_version": "10.21-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpcre2-dev",
            "binary_version": "10.21-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpcre2-posix0",
            "binary_version": "10.21-1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "pcre2-utils",
            "binary_version": "10.21-1"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8786.json"