CVE-2015-2326

Public on 2015-06-02
Modified on 2015-07-07
Description
The pcre_compile2 function in PCRE before 8.37 allows context-dependent attackers to compile incorrect code and cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via regular expression with a group containing both a forward referencing subroutine call and a recursive back reference, as demonstrated by "((?+1)(\1))/".
Severity
Medium severity
Medium
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.3
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 php54 2015-06-02 ALAS-2015-534 Fixed
Amazon Linux 1 php55 2015-07-07 ALAS-2015-562 Fixed
Amazon Linux 1 php56 2015-06-02 ALAS-2015-536 Fixed
Amazon Linux 1 php56 2015-07-07 ALAS-2015-563 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 4.3 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P