🛡️ USN-5425-1 — pcre3

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

pcre3 vulnerabilities

Yunho Kim discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled memory when

handling certain regular expressions. An attacker could possibly use

this issue to cause applications using PCRE to expose sensitive

information. This issue only affects Ubuntu 18.04 LTS,

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, Ubuntu 21.10 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. (CVE-2019-20838)

It was discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled memory when

handling certain regular expressions. An attacker could possibly use

this issue to cause applications using PCRE to have unexpected

behavior. This issue only affects Ubuntu 14.04 ESM, Ubuntu 16.04 ESM,

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-14155)

Affected software

USN-5425-1 is recorded against 1 package.

  • pcre3 (fixed in 2:8.39-13ubuntu0.22.04.1)

Timeline and source

Published on 17 May 2022 and last revised on 29 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

ubuntu.com (Advisory)
ubuntu.com (Report)
ubuntu.com (Report)

Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-17
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-29
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
pcre3 — 2:8.39-13ubuntu0.22.04.1

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