Vulnerability CVE-2015-2326


Published: 2020-01-14

Description:
The pcre_compile2 function in PCRE before 8.37 allows context-dependent attackers to compile incorrect code and cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via regular expression with a group containing both a forward referencing subroutine call and a recursive back reference, as demonstrated by "((?+1)(\1))/".

Type:

CWE-125

(Out-of-bounds Read)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
2.9/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
PCRE -> PCRE 
Opensuse -> Opensuse 

 References:
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00014.html
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1592
https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-15-016
https://www.pcre.org/original/changelog.txt

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