PT-2015-7783 · Philip Hazel+2 · Pcre+2

Vasyl Kaigorodov · Published 2015-12-01 · Updated 2016-12-28 · CVE-2015-8382

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.4

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PCRE versions prior to 8.37

Description The issue concerns the match function in pcre exec.c, which mishandles certain patterns involving (*ACCEPT), allowing remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service due to partially initialized memory and application crash. This can be achieved via a crafted regular expression.

Recommendations For versions prior to 8.37, update to version 8.37 or later to resolve the issue.

Exploit

Fix

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-8382

SUSE-SU-2016:2971-1

SUSE-SU-2016:3161-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2699-1

SUSE-SU-2017:2700-1

USN-2943-1

Affected Products

Pcre

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 123

• 🔥 http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup · Exploit
• 🔥 https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1537 · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8389 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8384 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8388 · Security Note
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-8382 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8380 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5073 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8387 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8394 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8381 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8381 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8382 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8395 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2326 · Security Note