CVE-2015-2325
mediumpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.016 · 76 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
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.
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Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.
base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.8–7.8
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affected products (8)
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also known as (3)
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references (14)
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- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00014.htmlcnnvd
- http://www.pcre.org/Patchcnnvd
- https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1591cnnvd
- https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-15-015cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2325cnnvd
- https://www.pcre.org/original/changelog.txtcnnvd
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00014.htmlenisa_euvd
- https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1591enisa_euvd
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