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CVE-2015-2325

Public on 2015-06-02
Modified on 2015-07-07
Description

The compile_branch function in PCRE before 8.37 allows context-dependent attackers to compile incorrect code, cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read and crash), or possibly have other unspecified impact via a regular expression with a group containing a forward reference repeated a large number of times within a repeated outer group that has a zero minimum quantifier.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.8
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 php54 2015-06-02 22:20 ALAS-2015-534
Amazon Linux 1 php55 2015-07-07 12:40 ALAS-2015-562
Amazon Linux 1 php56 2015-07-07 12:40 ALAS-2015-563
Amazon Linux 1 php56 2015-06-02 22:22 ALAS-2015-536

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 7.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H