cve/2017/CVE-2017-8786.md

CVE-2017-8786

Description

pcre2test.c in PCRE2 10.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression.

POC

Reference

• https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/29/libpcre-heap-based-buffer-overflow-write-in-pcre2test-c/

Github

• https://github.com/andir/nixos-issue-db-example