CVE-2015-3217

Summary

CVECVE-2015-3217
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2016-12-13 16:59:00 UTC
Updated2018-05-18 01:29:00 UTC
DescriptionPCRE 7.8 and 8.32 through 8.37, and PCRE2 10.10 mishandle group empty matches, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by /^(?:(?(1)\\.|([^\\\\W_])?)+)+$/.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Ibm Powerkvm 2.1 All All All
Application Ibm Powerkvm 3.1 All All All
Application Ibm Powerkvm 2.1 All All All
Application Ibm Powerkvm 3.1 All All All
Application Pcre Pcre 7.8 All All All
Application Pcre Pcre 8.32 All All All
Application Pcre Pcre 8.33 All All All
Application Pcre Pcre 8.34 All All All
Application Pcre Pcre 8.35 All All All
Application Pcre Pcre 8.36 All All All
Application Pcre Pcre 8.37 All All All
Application Pcre Pcre 7.8 All All All
Application Pcre Pcre 8.32 All All All
Application Pcre Pcre 8.33 All All All
Application Pcre Pcre 8.34 All All All
Application Pcre Pcre 8.35 All All All
Application Pcre Pcre 8.36 All All All
Application Pcre Pcre 8.37 All All All
Application Pcre Pcre2 10.10 All All All
Application Pcre Pcre2 10.10 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
IBM Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in PCRE affect PowerKVM - United States CONFIRM www-01.ibm.com Third Party Advisory
PCRE 'match()' Function Stack Buffer Overflow Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
1228283 – (CVE-2015-3217) CVE-2015-3217 pcre: stack overflow caused by mishandled group empty match (8.38/11) CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking
[pcre] Revision 1566 CONFIRM vcs.pcre.org Patch
Oracle Linux Bulletin - April 2016 CONFIRM www.oracle.com
oss-security - CVE-2015-3217: PCRE Library Call Stack Overflow Vulnerability in match() MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
Bug 1638 – PCRE Library Call Stack Overflow Vulnerability in match() CONFIRM bugs.exim.org Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 670287 EulerOS Security Update for glib2 (EulerOS-SA-2021-1789)
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