PT-2016-4684 · Philip Hazel+3 · Pcre+3

Published 2016-01-02 · Updated 2022-07-20 · CVE-2016-1283

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

9.8

Critical

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions PCRE version 8.38 PCRE (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue concerns a heap-based buffer overflow in the pcre compile2 function, which can be triggered by crafted regular expressions, potentially leading to a denial of service or other unspecified impacts. This can be exploited via a crafted regular expression, for example, using a JavaScript RegExp object.

Recommendations For PCRE version 8.38, consider updating to a newer version that addresses this issue. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Exploit

DoS

Buffer Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-119

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2016-1611

ALT-PU-2017-2569

ALT-PU-2017-2581

CVE-2016-1283

MGASA-2016-0204

OPENSUSE-SU-2024:10277-1

RHSA-2016:1132

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

Alt Linux

Pcre

Suse

Ubuntu

References · 145

• 🔥 https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1767 · Exploit
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-6004 · Security Note
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-1283 · Vendor Advisory
• 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://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8388 · Security Note
• 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
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-1283 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-8393 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8390 · Security Note