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CVE-2008-0674 Detail

Description

Buffer overflow in PCRE before 7.6 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression containing a character class with a large number of characters with Unicode code points greater than 255.


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CVSS 4.0 Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
N/A
NVD assessment not yet provided.

Vendor Statements (disclaimer)

Official Statement from Red Hat (02/20/2008)

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of PCRE as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.14/glib-2.14.6.news CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce//2008/Jul/msg00003.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2008/Oct/msg00001.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2009/Aug/msg00001.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-02/msg00008.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://pcre.org/changelog.txt CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/28923 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/28957 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/28960 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/28985 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/28996 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/29027 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/29048 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/29175 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/29267 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/29282 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/30048 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/30345 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/31326 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/32222 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/32746 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://secunia.com/advisories/36096 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200803-24.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200811-05.xml CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3216 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3757 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0086 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0086 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0176 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1499 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:053 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/05/02/2 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/488927/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/492535/100/0/threaded CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27786 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/29009 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31681 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1022674 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA09-218A.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat US Government Resource 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0570 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/0592 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1412 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2268 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2780 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2009/2172 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=431660 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/40505 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2223 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2503 CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://usn.ubuntu.com/581-1/ CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00371.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-February/msg00632.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2008-March/msg00181.html CVE, Inc., Red Hat

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2008-0674
NVD Published Date:
02/18/2008
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2025
Source:
Red Hat, Inc.