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Alpine Linux: CVE-2015-3210: pcre 8.37 contains multiple remote code execution vulnerabilites which are only fixed in upstream SVN

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2015-3210: pcre 8.37 contains multiple remote code execution vulnerabilites which are only fixed in upstream SVN

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/13/2016
Created
12/18/2019
Added
11/08/2019
Modified
11/08/2019

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in PCRE 8.34 through 8.37 and PCRE2 10.10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by /^(?P=B)((?P=B)(?J:(?P<B>c)(?P<B>a(?P=B)))>WGXCREDITS)/, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8384.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-pcre

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