Heap-based Buffer Overflow in PCRE and PCRE2: Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Heap-based Buffer Overflow in PCRE and PCRE2: Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

CVE-2015-3210 · CRITICAL Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Heap-based buffer overflow in PCRE 8.34 through 8.37 and PCRE2 10.10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by /^(?P=B)((?P=B)(?J:(?P<B>c)(?P<B>a(?P=B)))>WGXCREDITS)/, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8384.

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