CVE-2015-5073
- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-5073
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2015-5073.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2015-5073
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2016-12-13T16:59:06Z
- Modified
- 2025-04-12T10:46:40Z
- Severity
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- 9.1 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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Heap-based buffer overflow in the findfixedlength function in pcrecompile.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
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- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1025.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html
- http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?revision=1609&view=markup
- http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1571
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1023886
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75430
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033154
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/26/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/26/3
- https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1651
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html