cve/2015/CVE-2015-5073.md

CVE-2015-5073

Description

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.

POC

Reference

• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
• https://github.com/RedHatSatellite/satellite-host-cve