CVE-2015-2328
PCRE before 8.36 mishandles the /((?(R)a|(?1)))+/ pattern and related patterns with certain recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) or possibly have
02 Description
PCRE before 8.36 mishandles the /((?(R)a|(?1)))+/ pattern and related patterns with certain recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) or possibly have
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 5.24% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 92.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2015-12-02 01:00Z10 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 05:10Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2015-03-18
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- f9c56392482a2e4034f7de328bcb663d6961b960fcf2421db52d14d602237c3b
05 Affected products
06 References
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20151128 Re: Heap Overflow in PCREhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1
- www.oracle.comhttp://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
- www-01.ibm.comhttp://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1023886
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:1025http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1025.html
- www.securityfocus.com74924http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74924
- rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:2750http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html
- www.fortiguard.comhttp://www.fortiguard.com/advisory/FG-VD-15-014/
- jira.mongodb.orghttps://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-17252
- bugs.exim.orghttps://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1515
- vcs.pcre.orghttp://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- pcre3 Fixed in 2:8.35-7.2
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
- pcre3 Fixed in 1:8.31-2ubuntu2.2
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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