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DEBIAN-CVE-2019-20454

DEBIAN-CVE-2019-20454 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

An out-of-bounds read was discovered in PCRE before 10.34 when the pattern \X is JIT compiled and used to match specially crafted subjects in non-UTF mode. Applications that use PCRE to parse untrusted input may be vulnerable to this flaw, which would allow an attacker to crash the application. The flaw occurs in do_extuni_no_utf in pcre2_jit_compile.c.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.1
7.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:14pcre20, 0, 0
Debian:12pcre20, 0, 0
Debian:13pcre20, 0, 0
Debian:11pcre20, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Feb 14, 2020 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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