ubuntu-cve-2017-8399
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2017-05-01 18:59
Modified
2025-07-16 04:52
Summary
Details

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."

Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "libpcre2-16-0",
            "binary_version": "10.21-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libpcre2-16-0-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "10.21-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libpcre2-32-0",
            "binary_version": "10.21-1"
          },
          {
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            "binary_version": "10.21-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libpcre2-8-0",
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libpcre2-8-0-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "10.21-1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libpcre2-dbg",
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libpcre2-dev",
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libpcre2-dev-dbgsym",
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          },
          {
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "pcre2-utils",
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "pcre2-utils-dbgsym",
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          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS",
        "name": "pcre2",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/pcre2@10.21-1?arch=source\u0026distro=xenial"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
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            {
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            },
            {
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            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "10.20-1",
        "10.20-2",
        "10.20-3"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
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          {
            "binary_name": "libpcre2-16-0",
            "binary_version": "10.31-2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libpcre2-32-0",
            "binary_version": "10.31-2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libpcre2-8-0",
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          {
            "binary_name": "libpcre2-8-0-udeb",
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libpcre2-dbg",
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libpcre2-dev",
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          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libpcre2-posix0",
            "binary_version": "10.31-2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "pcre2-utils",
            "binary_version": "10.31-2"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:18.04:LTS",
        "name": "pcre2",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/pcre2@10.31-2?arch=source\u0026distro=bionic"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "10.31-2"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "10.22-3",
        "10.22-4",
        "10.22-5",
        "10.22-6"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "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.\"",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2017-8399",
  "modified": "2025-07-16T04:52:04Z",
  "published": "2017-05-01T18:59:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-8399"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8399"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2017-8399"
  ],
  "withdrawn": "2025-07-18T16:43:58Z"
}



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