Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-7245

Title: Pcre Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-7245.

CWE Category CWE-119

Published Date Mar 23, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.22%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-7245: Stack-based buffer overflow in the pcre32_copy_substring function in pcre_get.c in libpcre1 in PCRE 8.40 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (WRITE of size 4) or possibly have unspecified other impact 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-two-stack-based-buffer-overflow-write-in-pcre32_copy_substring-pcre_get-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-two-stack-based-buffer-overflow-write-in-pcre32_copy_substring-pcre_get-c/ https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-25

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.8

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:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns