UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5073

Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5073
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5073.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5073
Related
Published
2015-06-26T00:00:00Z
Modified
2015-06-26T00:00:00Z
Severity
  • 9.1 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Heap-based buffer overflow in the findfixedlength function in pcrecompile.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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / pcre3

Package

Name
pcre3
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/pcre3?arch=src?distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1

Affected versions

1:8.*

1:8.31-2
1:8.31-2ubuntu2

Ecosystem specific

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    "ubuntu_priority": "low",
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            "binary_version": "1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1",
            "binary_name": "libpcre3"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1",
            "binary_name": "libpcre3-dbg"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1",
            "binary_name": "libpcre3-dbgsym"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1",
            "binary_name": "libpcre3-dev"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1",
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        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1",
            "binary_name": "libpcre3-udeb"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1",
            "binary_name": "libpcre3-udeb-dbgsym"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1",
            "binary_name": "libpcrecpp0"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1",
            "binary_name": "libpcrecpp0-dbgsym"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1",
            "binary_name": "pcregrep"
        },
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    ]
}