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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2015-5073

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CVE-2015-5073

pcre: buffer overflow for forward reference within backward assertion with excess closing parenthesis (8.38/18)

Published Modified CWE 119, 200
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.1CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
Red Hat4.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Oracle (high), Red Hat (medium), Amazon (medium), Ubuntu (low).

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
amazon linux 1glib2, glib2-debuginfo, glib2-devel and 7 more2.36.3-5.26.amzn1 and 1 more
debian 11pcre32:8.35-7
debian 12pcre32:8.35-7
debian 7pcre3no fix listed
debian 8pcre32:8.35-3.3+deb8u1
echopcre32:8.35-7
Oracle Linux 7pcre, pcre-devel, pcre-static and 1 more8.32-15.el7_2.1
Red Hatglib2, glib2-devel, glib2-doc and 3 moreno fix listed
seal Red Hat 6pcre, seal-pcre7.8-7.el6+sp999
seal Red Hat 7glib2, seal-glib22.56.1-7.el7+sp999
ubuntu 12.04pcre38.12-4ubuntu0.1
ubuntu 14.04pcre31:8.31-2ubuntu2.1
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SourcePackageFixed in
amazon linux 1glib22.36.3-5.26.amzn1
amazon linux 1glib2-debuginfo2.36.3-5.26.amzn1
amazon linux 1glib2-devel2.36.3-5.26.amzn1
amazon linux 1glib2-doc2.36.3-5.26.amzn1
amazon linux 1glib2-fam2.36.3-5.26.amzn1
amazon linux 1pcre8.21-7.9.amzn1
amazon linux 1pcre-debuginfo8.21-7.9.amzn1
amazon linux 1pcre-devel8.21-7.9.amzn1
amazon linux 1pcre-static8.21-7.9.amzn1
amazon linux 1pcre-tools8.21-7.9.amzn1
debian 11pcre32:8.35-7
debian 12pcre32:8.35-7
debian 7pcre3no fix listed
debian 8pcre32:8.35-3.3+deb8u1
echopcre32:8.35-7
Oracle Linux 7pcre8.32-15.el7_2.1
Oracle Linux 7pcre-devel8.32-15.el7_2.1
Oracle Linux 7pcre-static8.32-15.el7_2.1
Oracle Linux 7pcre-tools8.32-15.el7_2.1
Red Hatglib2no fix listed
Red Hatglib2-develno fix listed
Red Hatglib2-docno fix listed
Red Hatglib2-famno fix listed
Red Hatglib2-staticno fix listed
Red Hatglib2-testsno fix listed
seal Red Hat 6pcre7.8-7.el6+sp999
seal Red Hat 6seal-pcre7.8-7.el6+sp999
seal Red Hat 7glib22.56.1-7.el7+sp999
seal Red Hat 7seal-glib22.56.1-7.el7+sp999
ubuntu 12.04pcre38.12-4ubuntu0.1
ubuntu 14.04pcre31:8.31-2ubuntu2.1
ubuntu 14.04-ESMpcre31:8.31-2ubuntu2.1
ubuntu 15.04pcre32:8.35-3.3ubuntu1.1
ubuntu 15.10pcre32:8.35-7.1ubuntu1.3

References

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