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CVE-2015-5073
published 2016-12-13

CVE-2015-5073: 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)…

critical9.1CVSS 3.0
AVNACLPRNUINSUCHINAH
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.

Affected

4 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianpcre3< pcre3 2:8.35-7 (bookworm)pcre3 2:8.35-7 (bookworm)
ibmpowerkvm
ibmpowerkvm
pcrepcre<= 8.37

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.09.1CRITICALCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
osv9.1CRITICAL