CVE-2015-5073

Description

Heap-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.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033154

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75430

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/26/3

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/26/1

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1023886

http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?revision=1609&view=markup

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1025.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3