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PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2015-2325

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PHP Vulnerability: CVE-2015-2325

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
01/14/2020
Created
09/15/2022
Added
09/15/2022
Modified
09/15/2022

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.

Solution(s)

  • php-upgrade-5_4_41
  • php-upgrade-5_5_26
  • php-upgrade-5_6_9

References

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