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Unscored USN-5665-1 2 CVEs

pcre3 vulnerabilities

Published Oct 10, 2022 · Updated Jun 25, 2026

Summary

It was discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular expressions.
A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using PCRE to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-6004)

It was discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain Unicode encoding. A
remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using PCRE to
crash, resulting in a denial of service. (CVE-2017-7186)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · Pro 16.04 LTS Pro:16.04:LTS pcre3 2:8.38-3.1ubuntu0.1~esm2

Vulnerabilities 2

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-6004
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7186