CVE-2015-2305
Public on 2015-03-30
Modified on 2015-05-14
Description
A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in the regcomp() function of Henry Spencer's regular expression library. An attacker able to make an application process a specially crafted regular expression pattern with the regcomp() function could cause that application to crash and possibly execute arbitrary code.
Severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
See breakdown
Affected Packages
| Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux 1 | php | 2015-05-14 | ALAS-2015-524 | Fixed |
| Amazon Linux 1 | php54 | 2015-04-15 | ALAS-2015-506 | Fixed |
| Amazon Linux 1 | php55 | 2015-04-15 | ALAS-2015-507 | Fixed |
| Amazon Linux 1 | php56 | 2015-04-15 | ALAS-2015-508 | Fixed |
CVSS Scores
| Score Type | Score | Vector | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 5.1 | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| NVD | CVSSv2 | 6.8 | AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |