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CVE-2015-3217

Date: December 13, 2016

PCRE 7.8 and 8.32 through 8.37, and PCRE2 10.10 mishandle group empty matches, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by /^(?:(?(1)\.|([^\\W_])?)+)+$/.

Severity Score

7.5

Related Resources (13)

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

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

Url: http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1566

Url: https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1638

Url: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75018

Url: http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/03/7

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

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

Url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-3217

Url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-3217

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

Url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228283

Url: https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2015-3217

Severity Score

7.5

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

CWE-119

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:	7.5
Attack Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC):	LOW
Privileges Required (PR):	NONE
User Interaction (UI):	NONE
Scope (S):	UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:	5.0
Access Vector (AV):	NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC):	LOW
Authentication (AU):	NONE
Confidentiality (C):	NONE
Integrity (I):	NONE
Availability (A):	PARTIAL
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CVE-2015-3217

Date: December 13, 2016

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CVSS v3.1

CVSS v2

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