Out-of-Bounds Affecting pcre3 package, versions <2:8.38-1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.25% (86th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-PCRE3-345509
- published 13 Dec 2016
- disclosed 13 Dec 2016
Introduced: 13 Dec 2016
CVE-2015-3217 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9
pcre3
to version 2:8.38-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pcre3
package and not the pcre3
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
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_])?)+)+$/.