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CVE-2015-5073

Published: 12/13/2016 Last updated: 8/6/2024 Reserved: 6/26/2015

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.

CNA assigner: mitre (8254265b-2729-46b6-b9e3-3dfca2d5bfca) Requested by: n/a

Opam packages affected (6)

conf-libpcre conf-libpcre2-8 conf-mingw-w64-pcre2-i686 conf-mingw-w64-pcre2-x86_64 conf-mingw-w64-pcre-i686 conf-mingw-w64-pcre-x86_64

Products affected (1)

Product Vendor Version
n/a n/a < 10.0.22631.3447

References (26)