Medium
Security advisory
libpcre in PCRE before 8.44 allows an integer overflow via a large number after a (?C substring.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-14155
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:53 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
libpcre in PCRE before 8.44 allows an integer overflow via a large number after a (?C substring.
osv:CVE-2020-14155
Complete source record
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