Description
PCRE 7.8 and 8.32 through 8.37, and PCRE2 10.10 mishandle group empty matches, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by /^(?:(?(1)\\.|([^\\\\W_])?)+)+$/.
Published: 2016-12-13
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-3280 PCRE 7.8 and 8.32 through 8.37, and PCRE2 10.10 mishandle group empty matches, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by /^(?:(?(1)\\.|([^\\\\W_])?)+)+$/.
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Ibm Powerkvm
Pcre Pcre Pcre2
Redhat Enterprise Linux Rhel Software Collections
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T05:39:31.985Z

Reserved: 2015-04-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-3217

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2016-12-13T16:59:02.220

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2015-3217

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2015-06-03T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-3217 - Bugzilla

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