CVE-2015-5073
N/A
Published: December 13, 2016 at 04:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:28 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsPcrePowerkvm
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 8%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (13)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1025.htmlVendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.htmlx_refsource_CONFIRMVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?revision=1609&view=markupx_refsource_CONFIRMExploitVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1571x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1023886Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/26/1Mailing Listx_refsource_MLIST
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/26/3x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119CWE-200
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