Description: CVE-2014-8964, heap buffer overflow Heap buffer overflow if an assertion with a zero minimum repeat is used as the condition in a conditional group. Origin: upstream http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1546 Bug: http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1546 Applied-Upstream: Yes, after 8.36 --- This patch header follows DEP-3: http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep3/ --- a/pcre_exec.c +++ b/pcre_exec.c @@ -1404,8 +1404,11 @@ condition = TRUE; /* Advance ecode past the assertion to the start of the first branch, - but adjust it so that the general choosing code below works. */ + but adjust it so that the general choosing code below works. If the + assertion has a quantifier that allows zero repeats we must skip over + the BRAZERO. This is a lunatic thing to do, but somebody did! */ + if (*ecode == OP_BRAZERO) ecode++; ecode += GET(ecode, 1); while (*ecode == OP_ALT) ecode += GET(ecode, 1); ecode += 1 + LINK_SIZE - PRIV(OP_lengths)[condcode];