CVE-2015-2326
mediumpriority · track · 23EPSS 0.016 · 76 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-28
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))/".
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affected products (8)
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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=1592cnnvd
- https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-15-016cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-2326cnnvd
- 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=1592enisa_euvd
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