CVE-2015-2305

rxspencer alpha3.8.g5 - Integer Overflow via Large Regular Expression

Title source: llm

Description

Integer overflow in the regcomp implementation in the Henry Spencer BSD regex library (aka rxspencer) alpha3.8.g5 on 32-bit platforms, as used in NetBSD through 6.1.5 and other products, might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large regular expression that leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.

References (21)

Core 21

Core References

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_bid

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72611

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_debian

http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3195

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/11/8

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00002.html

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_apple

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_hp

http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143403519711434&w=2

Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack

http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031947

Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00005.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2594-1

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://support.apple.com/HT205267

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu

http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2572-1

Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

http://blog.clamav.net/2015/04/clamav-0987-has-been-released.html

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00026.html

Third Party Advisory, US Government Resource third-party-advisory x_refsource_cert-vn

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/695940

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00024.html

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist

http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/07/14

Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://guidovranken.wordpress.com/2015/02/04/full-disclosure-heap-overflow-in-h-spencers-regex-library-on-32-bit-systems/

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1053.html

Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1066.html

Scores

EPSS 0.2242

EPSS Percentile 95.9%

Details

CWE

CWE-190

Status published

Products (11)

canonical/ubuntu_linux 10.04

canonical/ubuntu_linux 12.04

canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.04

canonical/ubuntu_linux 14.10

canonical/ubuntu_linux 15.04

debian/debian_linux 7.0

debian/debian_linux 8.0

opensuse/opensuse 13.1

opensuse/opensuse 13.2

php/php 5.4.0 - 5.4.39

... and 1 more

Published Mar 30, 2015

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026