CVE-2015-3210
Published: 01 June 2015
Heap-based buffer overflow in PCRE 8.34 through 8.37 and PCRE2 10.10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by /^(?P=B)((?P=B)(?J:(?P<B>c)(?P<B>a(?P=B)))>WGXCREDITS)/, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8384.
Priority
Medium
CVSS 3 base score: 9.8
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
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pcre3 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
Upstream |
Needed
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| Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr) |
Not vulnerable
(1:8.31-2ubuntu2)
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Patches: Upstream: http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1558 |
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Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| seth-arnold | "A number of such bugs have recently been discovered by fuzzers", it might be a good idea to trawl the source repo for more such fixes. |
| mdeslaur | Debian claims introduced in http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1361 was supposed to be fixed in wily (2:8.35-7ubuntu2) but got reverted in (2:8.35-7ubuntu5) by mistake CVE-2015-2325_CVE-2015-2326_CVE-2015-3210_CVE-2015-5073.patch in jessie |
References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-3210
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2694-1
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2943-1
- NVD
- Launchpad
- Debian