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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2015-3210: Vulnerability in PCRE

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2015-3210: Vulnerability in PCRE

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
12/13/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/29/2017
Modified
02/01/2022

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)

  • oracle-solaris-11-2-upgrade-library-pcre-8-37-0-175-2-13-0-3-0
  • oracle-solaris-11-3-upgrade-library-pcre-8-38-0-175-3-5-0-1-0

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