CVE-2015-3217
mediumpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.062 · 93 %ileEUFRUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
PCRE 7.8 and 8.32 through 8.37, and PCRE2 10.10 mishandle group empty matches, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by /^(?:(?(1)\\.|([^\\\\W_])?)+)+$/.
cvss
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 · 5–7.5
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affected products (11)
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advisories (1)
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- CERTFR-2026-AVI-1385Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMwareFrançais2026-10-26vendor · certfrFR
also known as (3)
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references (26)
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- http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1566cnnvd
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1023886cnnvd
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/03/7cnnvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75018cnnvd
- https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1638cnnvd
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228283cnnvd
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1025.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.htmlenisa_euvd
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