CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-2326
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-01-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125
Description
The pcre_compile2 function in PCRE before 8.37 allows context-dependent attackers to compile incorrect code and cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via regular expression with a group containing both a forward referencing subroutine call and a recursive back reference, as demonstrated by "((?+1)(\1))/".
Affected configurations
• pcre pcre (< 8.37)
• opensuse opensuse 13.1
• opensuse opensuse 13.2
• mariadb mariadb (>= 10.0.0 < 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
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00014.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1592 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-15-016 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.pcre.org/original/changelog.txt Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00014.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1592 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-15-016 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.pcre.org/original/changelog.txt Release Notes, Third Party Advisory