usn-2943-1
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2016-03-29 17:10
Modified
2026-04-22 07:36
Summary
pcre3 vulnerabilities
Details

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.

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  "affected": [
    {
      "database_specific": {
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          "cves": [
            {
              "id": "CVE-2015-2328",
              "severity": [
                {
                  "score": "low",
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            },
            {
              "id": "CVE-2015-8380",
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            {
              "id": "CVE-2015-8382",
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            {
              "id": "CVE-2015-8385",
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              "id": "CVE-2015-8386",
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                  "type": "CVSS_V3"
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                }
              ]
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        }
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        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "libpcre3",
            "binary_version": "1:8.31-2ubuntu2.2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libpcrecpp0",
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          },
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          }
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      },
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            },
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "It 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.\n",
  "id": "USN-2943-1",
  "modified": "2026-04-22T07:36:33Z",
  "published": "2016-03-29T17:10:38Z",
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  "summary": "pcre3 vulnerabilities",
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}



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