CVE-2014-9769

7.3 highEPSS 2.4%

High (7.3) in pcre pcre. EPSS 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.0

7.3 high

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

EPSS: 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 83% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-119
Published: 2016-03-28
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

pcre:pcre

References

http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1475
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/03/26/1
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85570
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1035424
https://bugs.debian.org/819050

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