### [CVE-2017-8786](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-8786)
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### Description

pcre2test.c in PCRE2 10.23 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://blogs.gentoo.org/ago/2017/04/29/libpcre-heap-based-buffer-overflow-write-in-pcre2test-c/

#### Github
- https://github.com/andir/nixos-issue-db-example