UBUNTU-CVE-2016-3191

The compilebranch function in pcrecompile.c in PCRE 8.x before 8.39 and pcre2_compile.c in PCRE2 before 10.22 mishandles patterns containing an (*ACCEPT) substring in conjunction with nested parentheses, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror, aka ZDI-CAN-3542.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / pcre3

Package

Name: pcre3
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/pcre3@1:8.31-2ubuntu2.2?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1:8.31-2ubuntu2.2

Affected versions

1:8.*

1:8.31-2

1:8.31-2ubuntu2

1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "availability": "No subscription required",
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "1:8.31-2ubuntu2.2",
            "binary_name": "libpcre3"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:8.31-2ubuntu2.2",
            "binary_name": "libpcre3-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:8.31-2ubuntu2.2",
            "binary_name": "libpcrecpp0"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:8.31-2ubuntu2.2",
            "binary_name": "pcregrep"
        }
    ]
}