CVE-2015-2325

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Summary

CVECVE-2015-2325
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-01-14 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-08-05 14:29:00 UTC
DescriptionThe compile_branch function in PCRE before 8.37 allows context-dependent attackers to compile incorrect code, cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read and crash), or possibly have other unspecified impact via a regular expression with a group containing a forward reference repeated a large number of times within a repeated outer group that has a zero minimum quantifier.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125 | CWE-787

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mariadb Mariadb All All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.2 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.1 All All All
Operating System Opensuse Opensuse 13.2 All All All
Application Pcre Pcre All All All All
Application Pcre Pcre All All All All
Application Php Php All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
openSUSE-SU-2015:0858-1: moderate: Security update for pcre MISC lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
Fortinet Discovers PCRE Library Heap Overflow Vulnerability I | FortiGuard MISC fortiguard.com Third Party Advisory
www.pcre.org/original/changelog.txt CONFIRM www.pcre.org Release Notes
Bug 1591 – [FG-VD-15-015] PCRE Library Heap Overflow Vulnerability MISC bugs.exim.org Exploit, Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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