CVE-2015-5073
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Dec 13, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jun 26, 2015
Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the find_fixedlength function in pcre_compile.c in PCRE before 8.38 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or obtain sensitive information from heap memory and possibly bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted regular expression with an excess closing parenthesis.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- 75430vdb-entry
- RHSA-2016:1132vendor-advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1023886
- RHSA-2016:1025vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2016:2750vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20150626 CVE Request: PCRE Library Heap Overflow Vulnerability in find_fixedlength()mailing-list
- [oss-security] 20150626 Re: CVE Request: PCRE Library Heap Overflow Vulnerability in find_fixedlength()mailing-list
- https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1651
- 1033154vdb-entry
- http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?revision=1609&view=markup
- http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1571
- GLSA-201607-02vendor-advisory
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