CVE-2015-5073

9.1CRITICAL

Key Information:

Vendor
IBM
Status
Powerkvm
Vendor
CVE Published:
13 December 2016

Summary

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.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75430
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbu...
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
9.1
Severity:
CRITICAL
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
None
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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