PT-2015-7793 · Philip Hazel+2 · Pcre+2

Published 2015-12-01 · Updated 2023-02-16 · CVE-2015-8393

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.5

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PCRE versions prior to 8.38

Description The issue concerns the mishandling of the -q option for binary files by pcregrep in PCRE, potentially allowing remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted file. This could be exploited through a CGI script that sends stdout data to a client.

Recommendations For versions prior to 8.38, update to version 8.38 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2015-8393

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

• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8389 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8383 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8393 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8394 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-3210 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174931.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8388 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8393 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-2326 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8383 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9769 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8393 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1283 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8390 · Security Note
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9769 · Security Note