CVE-2015-5073 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

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.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.securityfocus.com/bid/75430 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033154 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1023886 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132 https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1651 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.1