CVE-2026-103111

Publication date 30 September 2026

Last updated 3 November 2026

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

7.6 · High

Score breakdown

Description

PCRE2 before 10.49, when there is an attacker-controlled regular expression and certain JIT API usage, allows an out-of-bounds write with arbitrary data.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
pcre2 26.10 stonking
Fixed in 10.46-1ubuntu1
26.04 LTS resolute
Fixed in 10.46-1ubuntu0.1
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed in 10.42-4ubuntu2.2
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed in 10.39-3ubuntu0.2
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed in 10.34-7ubuntu0.1+esm1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed in 10.31-2ubuntu0.1~esm2
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected

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Patch details

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Package Patch details
pcre2

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.6 · High

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-8974-1
    • PCRE2 vulnerabilities
    • 3 November 2026

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