CVE-2014-9769

Publication date 29 March 2016

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

pcre_jit_compile.c in PCRE 8.35 does not properly use table jumps to optimize nested alternatives, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted string, as demonstrated by packets encountered by Suricata during use of a regular expression in an Emerging Threats Open ruleset.

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Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
pcre3	17.04 zesty	Not affected
	16.10 yakkety	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	15.10 wily	Fixed 2:8.35-7.1ubuntu1.3
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
	12.04 LTS precise	Not affected

Notes

mdeslaur

introduced by http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1434 in 8.35

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
pcre3	Upstream: http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1475

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.3 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	Low
Integrity impact	Low
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L