CVE-2014-8964

pcre: incorrect handling of zero-repeat assertion conditions

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

4.3

CVSS 2.0

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Published · November 18, 2014

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A flaw was found in the way PCRE handled certain malformed regular expressions. This issue could cause an application (for example, Konqueror) linked against PCRE to crash while parsing malicious regular expressions.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 4.3
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWE-119 · Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer