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CVE-2015-2305

Public on 2015-03-30
Modified on 2015-05-14
Description

A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in the regcomp() function of Henry Spencer's regular expression library. An attacker able to make an application process a specially crafted regular expression pattern with the regcomp() function could cause that application to crash and possibly execute arbitrary code.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.1
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 php 2015-05-14 14:31 ALAS-2015-524
Amazon Linux 1 php54 2015-04-15 21:49 ALAS-2015-506
Amazon Linux 1 php55 2015-04-15 21:49 ALAS-2015-507
Amazon Linux 1 php56 2015-04-15 21:50 ALAS-2015-508

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 5.1 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P