GHSA-v294-5p22-v3ph

GHSA-v294-5p22-v3ph PUBLISHED CVSS 9.300000190734863 CRITICAL

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 1, 2022

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 7.0 does not properly calculate sizes for unspecified "multiple forms of character class", which triggers a buffer overflow that allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code.

Risk scores

CVSS 4.0

9.300000190734863

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Timeline

May 1, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 9, 2026 Distribution Patch (2 in total, the first dated here)
Apr 9, 2026 Security Advisory (8 in total, the first dated here)

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