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CVE-2014-8964

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2014-8964 describes a heap-based buffer overflow in PCRE versions 8.36 and earlier, impacting products like MariaDB, Oracle, and Red Hat. This vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 5.0, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impact through a crafted regular expression, requiring low attack complexity and no authentication. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion, despite some media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 8.36CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 10.0.0, < 10.0.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mariadb:mariadb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
19CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:19:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
20CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
21CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

5.0MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
10.0
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
6.50%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
93.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0650 is in the 90th percentile among its peer group of 23,705 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: pcre-0:8.32-14.el7
View patch
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: php54-php
redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: php55-php

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2014-8964Low

pcre: incorrect handling of zero-repeat assertion conditions

Nov 18, 2014

References

advisories.mageia.org / MGASA-2014-0534.html
Third Party Advisory
bugs.exim.org / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPermissions RequiredThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2014-December/145843.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147474.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147511.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.fedoraproject.org / pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147516.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00014.html
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
rhn.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2015-0330.html
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory
security.gentoo.org / glsa/201607-02
Third Party Advisory
exim.org / viewvc/pcre
Broken Link
mandriva.com / security/advisories
Broken Link
mandriva.com / security/advisories
Broken Link
openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2014/11/21/6
Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
oracle.com / technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html
Third Party Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/71206
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry