CVE-2015-5073

critical

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2016-12-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Severity: Critical