Information Disclosure and Denial of Service Risk in PCRE by Vendor
CVE-2015-8382

Currently unrated

Key Information:

Vendor

Pcre

Status
Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library
Vendor
CVE Published:
2 December 2015

What is CVE-2015-8382?

The PCRE library before version 8.37 contains a flaw in the match function of pcre_exec.c that mismanages certain regular expression patterns. This security issue can lead to the disclosure of sensitive information from process memory and may also result in a denial of service, causing crashes due to partially initialized memory. Affected systems are vulnerable when processing crafted regular expressions, which could potentially be exploited by remote attackers.

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1187225
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76157
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Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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