CVE-2019-20838 (GCVE-0-2019-20838)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2020-06-15 16:50
Modified
2026-10-08 21:13
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
libpcre in PCRE before 8.43 allows a subject buffer over-read in JIT when UTF is disabled, and \X or \R has more than one fixed quantifier, a related issue to CVE-2019-20454.
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