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CVE-2015-3217

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_])?)+)+$/.

  • Published: Dec 13, 2016
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2015-3217
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7.5
  • AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 5
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
pcre / pcre2 10.10 10.10.x
pcre / pcre 8.34 8.34.x
pcre / pcre 8.36 8.36.x
pcre / pcre 8.33 8.33.x
pcre / pcre 7.8 7.8.x
pcre / pcre 8.37 8.37.x
pcre / pcre 8.35 8.35.x
pcre / pcre 8.32 8.32.x
ibm / powerkvm 3.1 3.1.x
ibm / powerkvm 2.1 2.1.x