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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2015-3210): PCRE vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2015-3210): PCRE vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/29/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
04/04/2016
Modified
07/09/2020

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libpcre3

References

  • USN-2694-1
  • USN-2943-1
  • RHSA-2016:1132
  • RHSA-2016:2750
  • 74934
  • CVE-2015-3210

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