CVE-2015-2325

high

Description

The compile_branch function in PCRE before 8.37 allows context-dependent attackers to compile incorrect code, cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read and crash), or possibly have other unspecified impact via a regular expression with a group containing a forward reference repeated a large number of times within a repeated outer group that has a zero minimum quantifier.

References

https://www.pcre.org/original/changelog.txt

https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-15-015

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00014.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-01-14

Updated: 2022-08-05

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High