CVE-2015-3210 (GCVE-0-2015-3210)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-12-13 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 05:39
VLAI
Summary
Heap-based buffer overflow in PCRE 8.34 through 8.37 and PCRE2 10.10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by /^(?P=B)((?P=B)(?J:(?P<B>c)(?P<B>a(?P=B)))>WGXCREDITS)/, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8384.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74934 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/01/7 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/1… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1636 x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public
2015-05-29 00:00
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