CVE-2015-3217
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-12-13 16:00
Modified
2024-08-06 05:39
Severity ?
Summary
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_])?)+)+$/.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1025.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1566Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1023886Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/03/7Mailing List
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75018Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1638Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228283Issue Tracking
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