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high 7.5

CVE-2008-2371 json

Heap-based buffer overflow in pcre_compile.c in the Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library 7.7 allows context-dependent attacker…

published 2008-07-07 18 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2008-2366

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.7%
EPSS 6.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • pcre3 Debian 12 7.6-2.1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2371

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2008-2371 updated

pcre: heap overflow caused by incorrect option handling

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

6.73% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • bugs.gentoo.org http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=228091 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
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References

Sources

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