CVE-2015-3217
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Dec 13, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Apr 10, 2015
Description
PCRE 7.8 and 8.32 through 8.37, and PCRE2 10.10 mishandle group empty matches, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by /^(?:(?(1)\\.|([^\\\\W_])?)+)+$/.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- RHSA-2016:1132vendor-advisory
- http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1566
- https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1638
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
- [oss-security] 20150603 CVE-2015-3217: PCRE Library Call Stack Overflow Vulnerability in match()mailing-list
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1023886
- RHSA-2016:1025vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2016:2750vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228283
- 75018vdb-entry
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