CVE-2014-8964: Fedoraproject Fedora

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 6.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in PCRE 8.36 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or have other unspecified impact via a crafted regular expression, related to an assertion that allows zero repeats.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 19 only; version 20 only; version 21 only
• MariaDB MariaDB: from 10.0.0, before 10.0.18 (fixed in 10.0.18)
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.1 only; version 13.2 only
• Oracle Solaris: version 11.2 only
• Pcre Pcre: up to and including 8.36
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus: version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only; version 7.5 only; version 7.6 only; version 7.7 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server: version 7.0 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: version 7.3 only; version 7.4 only; version 7.6 only; version 7.7 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: version 7.3 only; version 7.6 only; version 7.7 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation: version 7.0 only

Published 2014-12-16. Last modified 2026-06-17.