CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-2325
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-01-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125, CWE-787
Description
The compile_branch function in PCRE before 8.37 allows context-dependent attackers to compile incorrect code, cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read and crash), or possibly have other unspecified impact via a regular expression with a group containing a forward reference repeated a large number of times within a repeated outer group that has a zero minimum quantifier.
Affected configurations
• pcre pcre (< 8.37)
• opensuse opensuse 13.1
• opensuse opensuse 13.2
• mariadb mariadb (< 10.0.18)
• php php (>= 5.4.0 < 5.4.41)
• php php (>= 5.5.0 < 5.5.26)
• php php (>= 5.6.0 < 5.6.9)
Related
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00014.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1591 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-15-015 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.pcre.org/original/changelog.txt Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00014.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1591 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-15-015 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.pcre.org/original/changelog.txt Release Notes, Vendor Advisory