Security advisory

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  "id": "ab89c19b6cf8afcfe64f504ae3c367cf26a0bd399e1c845539073f87d468fb28",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-8399",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-8399",
    "summary": "PCRE2 before 10.30 has an out-of-bounds write caused by a stack-based buffer overflow in pcre2_match.c, related to a \"pattern with very many captures.\"",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-8399",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "critical",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2017-8399",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-8399"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/pcre2project/pcre2",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "921b0ae10fe26bdb979f70ec9512b9f95e3ddccb"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "10.30"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-8399.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:22.655970034Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2/code/tags/pcre2-10.30/ChangeLog?revision=854&view=markup",
        "https://bugs.chromium.org/p/oss-fuzz/issues/detail?id=783",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201710-09",
        "https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=674"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-8399",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 430732,
  "published_at": "2017-05-01T18:59:00.403+00:00"
}