ubuntu · CVE-2017-8399

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-05-01 18:59:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:40:12 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2017-8399 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (pcre2), 9 status rows across 9 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, precise, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): ignored 3, not-affected 3, DNE 2, needs-triage 1.

Description:

PCRE2 before 10.30 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a stack-based buffer overflow in pcre2_match.c, related to a "pattern with very many captures."

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