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DEBIAN-CVE-2015-3217

DEBIAN-CVE-2015-3217 PUBLISHED CVSS 7.5 HIGH

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_])?)+)+$/.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.0
7.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Debian:11pcre30, 0, 0
Debian:12pcre30, 0, 0

Timeline

  • Dec 13, 2016 CVE Published
  • Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated
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