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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2015-3217: Vulnerability in PCRE

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Oracle Solaris 11: CVE-2015-3217: Vulnerability in PCRE

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
12/13/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
05/29/2017
Modified
02/01/2022

Description

PCRE 7.8 and 8.32 through 8.37, and PCRE2 10.10 mishandle group empty matches, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by /^(?:(?(1)\\.|([^\\\\W_])?)+)+$/.

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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