CVE-2015-5073

Summary

CVECVE-2015-5073
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
DescriptionHeap-based buffer overflow in the find_fixedlength function in pcre_compile.c in PCRE before 8.38 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or obtain sensitive information from heap memory and possibly bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted regular expression with an excess closing parenthesis.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-119 | CWE-200

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 All 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 'find_fixedlength()' Function Heap Buffer Overflow Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
[pcre] Revision 1571 CONFIRM vcs.pcre.org Exploit, Vendor Advisory
Oracle Linux Bulletin - April 2016 CONFIRM www.oracle.com
libpcre: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 201607-02) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
oss-security - Re: CVE Request: PCRE Library Heap Overflow Vulnerability in find_fixedlength() MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com
Bug 1651 – PCRE Library Heap Overflow Vulnerability in find_fixedlength() CONFIRM bugs.exim.org Exploit
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT rhn.redhat.com
oss-security - CVE Request: PCRE Library Heap Overflow Vulnerability in find_fixedlength() MLIST www.openwall.com Mailing List
PCRE Regex Overflow Lets Remote Users Cause the Target Service to Crash - SecurityTracker SECTRACK www.securitytracker.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
ViewVC Exception CONFIRM vcs.pcre.org Vendor Advisory
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 355521 Amazon Linux Security Advisory for pcre : AL2012-2023-420
  • 670287 EulerOS Security Update for glib2 (EulerOS-SA-2021-1789)
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