vulnerability

Oracle Linux: CVE-2015-5073: ELSA-2016-1025: pcre security update (IMPORTANT)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:N/A:C)
Published
2016-05-11
Added
2016-05-11
Modified
2024-11-29

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the find_fixedlength function in pcre_compile.c in PCRE before 8.38 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or obtain sensitive information from heap memory and possibly bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted regular expression with an excess closing parenthesis.

Solution(s)

oracle-linux-upgrade-pcreoracle-linux-upgrade-pcre-develoracle-linux-upgrade-pcre-staticoracle-linux-upgrade-pcre-tools
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