Heap-based Buffer Overflow in PCRE find_fixedlength Function

CVE-2015-5073 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Heap-based buffer overflow in the find_fixedlength function in pcre_compile.c in PCRE before 8.38 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or obtain sensitive information from heap memory and possibly bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted regular expression with an excess closing parenthesis.

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