Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-2371

Title: Php RCE

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-2371.

CWE Category CWE-787
Published Date Jul 07, 2008
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
6.73%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-2371: Heap-based buffer overflow in pcre_compile.c in the Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library 7.7 allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a regular expression that begins with an option and contains multiple branches.

Impacted Vendors

P
php 1
P
pcre 1
P
php_group 1
P
perl 1

Reference Links

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228091 http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glib/2.16/glib-2.16.4.changes http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00001.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124654546101607&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125631037611762&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/30916 http://secunia.com/advisories/30944 http://secunia.com/advisories/30945 http://secunia.com/advisories/30958 http://secunia.com/advisories/30961 http://secunia.com/advisories/30967 http://secunia.com/advisories/30972 http://secunia.com/advisories/30990 http://secunia.com/advisories/31200 http://secunia.com/advisories/32222 http://secunia.com/advisories/32454 http://secunia.com/advisories/32746 http://secunia.com/advisories/35074 http://secunia.com/advisories/35650 http://secunia.com/advisories/39300 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-05.xml http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549 http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-624-2 http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0305 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1602 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200807-03.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:147 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:023 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497828/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30087 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31681 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-624-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-628-1 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-133A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2005 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2006 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2336 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2780 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1297 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0833 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00105.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00123.html http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228091 http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glib/2.16/glib-2.16.4.changes http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/May/msg00002.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00001.html http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=124654546101607&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=125631037611762&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/30916 http://secunia.com/advisories/30944 http://secunia.com/advisories/30945 http://secunia.com/advisories/30958 http://secunia.com/advisories/30961 http://secunia.com/advisories/30967 http://secunia.com/advisories/30972 http://secunia.com/advisories/30990 http://secunia.com/advisories/31200 http://secunia.com/advisories/32222 http://secunia.com/advisories/32454 http://secunia.com/advisories/32746 http://secunia.com/advisories/35074 http://secunia.com/advisories/35650 http://secunia.com/advisories/39300 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-05.xml http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216 http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3549 http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-624-2 http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0305 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1602 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200807-03.xml http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:147 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2009:023 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/497828/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30087 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31681 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-624-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-628-1 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-133A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2005 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2006 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2336 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2780 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/1297 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/0833 https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00105.html https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-July/msg00123.html
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.5
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-2371 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.