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CVE-2015-5073

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.

Published

2016-12-13T16:59:06.097

Last Modified

2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 9.1 (CRITICAL)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Access Vector: NETWORK
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: PARTIAL
Integrity Impact: NONE
Availability Impact: PARTIAL

Exploitability Score

10.0

Impact Score

4.9

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-119
CWE-200

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	ibm	powerkvm	2.1	Yes
Application	ibm	powerkvm	3.1	Yes
Application	pcre	pcre	≤ 8.37	Yes

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1025.html ([email protected])
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html ([email protected])
http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?revision=1609&view=markup Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1571 Exploit, Vendor Advisory ([email protected])
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1023886 Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/26/1 Mailing List ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/26/3 Mailing List ([email protected])
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html ([email protected])
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75430 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033154 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry ([email protected])
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132 ([email protected])
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1651 Exploit ([email protected])
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02 ([email protected])
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1025.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?revision=1609&view=markup Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1571 Exploit, Vendor Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1023886 Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/26/1 Mailing List (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/26/3 Mailing List (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75430 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033154 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1651 Exploit (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02 (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)