CVE-2015-2326

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Summary

CVECVE-2015-2326
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2020-01-14 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-01-19 16:38:00 UTC
DescriptionThe pcre_compile2 function in PCRE before 8.37 allows context-dependent attackers to compile incorrect code and cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via regular expression with a group containing both a forward referencing subroutine call and a recursive back reference, as demonstrated by "((?+1)(\1))/".

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

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
Fortinet Discovers PCRE Library Heap Overflow Vulnerability II | FortiGuard MISC fortiguard.com Third Party Advisory
openSUSE-SU-2015:0858-1: moderate: Security update for pcre MISC lists.opensuse.org Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
www.pcre.org/original/changelog.txt CONFIRM www.pcre.org Release Notes
Bug 1592 – [FG-VD-15-016] PCRE Library Heap overflow Vulnerability II 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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