Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published May 5, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-8786
CVE-2017-8786
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.
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References
5- vcs.pcre.org/pcre2nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- vcs.pcre.org/pcre2nvdPatchVendor Advisory
- blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/29/libpcre-heap-based-buffer-overflow-write-in-pcre2test-c/nvdExploitPatchThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cginvdExploitIssue TrackingThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
- security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-09nvd
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