CVE-2008-1026 (GCVE-0-2008-1026)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2008-04-17 17:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 08:08
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Integer overflow in the PCRE regular expression compiler (JavaScriptCore/pcre/pcre_compile.cpp) in Apple WebKit, as used in Safari before 3.1.1, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a regular expression with large, nested repetition counts, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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| http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019870 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/28815 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/490990/100… | mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ |
| http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE |
| http://securityreason.com/securityalert/3815 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON |
| http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2094… | vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN |
| http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/1250… | vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/31074 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-08-022 | x_refsource_MISC |
Date Public
2008-04-16 00:00
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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