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CVE-2015-2326

Published: Jan 14, 2020

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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Description

The pcre_compile2 function in PCRE before 8.37 allows context-dependent attackers to compile incorrect code and cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via regular expression with a group containing both a forward referencing subroutine call and a recursive back reference, as demonstrated by "((?+1)(\1))/".

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1592

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http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00014.html

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https://www.pcre.org/original/changelog.txt

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https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-15-016

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