Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-8964

Title: Mariadb Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-8964.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Dec 16, 2014

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

6.50%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-8964: Heap-based buffer overflow in PCRE 8.36 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or have other unspecified impact via a crafted regular expression, related to an assertion that allows zero repeats.

Impacted Vendors

pcre 1

perl 1

mariadb 1

Reference Links

http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0534.html http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1546 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145843.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147474.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147511.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147516.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00014.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0330.html http://www.exim.org/viewvc/pcre?view=revision&revision=1513 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:002 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:137 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/21/6 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71206 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1166147 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02 http://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2014-0534.html http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1546 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145843.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147474.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147511.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147516.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00014.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0330.html http://www.exim.org/viewvc/pcre?view=revision&revision=1513 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:002 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:137 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/11/21/6 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71206 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1166147 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-8964 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

June 17, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

December 16, 2014 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:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.