USN-2694-1 (UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8964)
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2015-07-29 16:36 – Updated: 2026-04-22 07:36 – Source websiteMichele Spagnuolo discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-8964)
Kai Lu discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.04. (CVE-2015-2325, CVE-2015-2326)
Wen Guanxing discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 15.04. (CVE-2015-3210)
It was discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-5073)
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"details": "Michele Spagnuolo discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular\nexpressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications\nusing PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute\narbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-8964)\n\nKai Lu discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular\nexpressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications\nusing PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute\narbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.04.\n(CVE-2015-2325, CVE-2015-2326)\n\nWen Guanxing discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular\nexpressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications\nusing PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute\narbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 15.04. (CVE-2015-3210)\n\nIt was discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular\nexpressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications\nusing PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute\narbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and 14.04 LTS.\n(CVE-2015-5073)\n",
"id": "USN-2694-1",
"modified": "2026-04-22T07:36:32Z",
"published": "2015-07-29T16:36:09Z",
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