CVE Catalog

CVE-2017-7186

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

libpcre1 in PCRE 8.40 and libpcre2 in PCRE2 10.23 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service by triggering an invalid Unicode property lookup, leading to segmentation violation and application crash.

Risk Assessment

Attackers can exploit this vulnerability to remotely crash applications, potentially leading to service availability interruptions.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update to the latest version of PCRE to mitigate this vulnerability and secure applications against potential attacks.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

libpcre1 in PCRE 8.40 and libpcre2 in PCRE2 10.23 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation violation for read access, and application crash) by triggering an invalid Unicode property lookup.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS