CVE-2015-3210 (GCVE-0-2015-3210)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-12-13 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 05:39
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in PCRE 8.34 through 8.37 and PCRE2 10.10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by /^(?P=B)((?P=B)(?J:(?P<B>c)(?P<B>a(?P=B)))>WGXCREDITS)/, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8384.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
6 references
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|---|---|
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74934 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/01/7 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/1… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1636 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Date Public
2015-05-29 00:00
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"id": "CVE-2015-3210",
"initial_release_date": "2023-02-15T05:19:25Z",
"product_status:known_affected": "78",
"product_status:known_not_affected": "210",
"product_status:recommended": "206",
"source": "SUSE CSAF VEX",
"status": "interim",
"title": "SUSE CVE CVE-2015-3210",
"url": "https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/csaf-vex/cve-2015-3210.json",
"version": "16"
}
}
}
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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