cve-2015-5073
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2016-12-13 16:00
Modified
2024-08-06 06:32
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1025.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?revision=1609&view=markupVendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1571Exploit, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1023886Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/26/1Mailing List
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/26/3Mailing List
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75430Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033154Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1651Exploit
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02
Impacted products
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