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CVE-2017-8399 (GCVE-0-2017-8399)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-05-01 18:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 16:34
VLAI
Summary
PCRE2 before 10.30 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a stack-based buffer overflow in pcre2_match.c, related to a "pattern with very many captures."
CWE
  • n/a
Date Public
2017-05-01 00:00
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