Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-7244

Title: Pcre Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-7244.

CWE Category CWE-125

Published Date Mar 23, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.5 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.00%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-7244: The _pcre32_xclass function in pcre_xclass.c in libpcre1 in PCRE 8.40 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (invalid memory read) via a crafted file.

Impacted Vendors

pcre 1

perl 1

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97067 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486 https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/03/20/libpcre-invalid-memory-read-in-_pcre32_xclass-pcre_xclass-c/ https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-25 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97067 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2486 https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/03/20/libpcre-invalid-memory-read-in-_pcre32_xclass-pcre_xclass-c/ https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-25

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.5

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.3

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns