Exploitation Summary
EIP tracks 1 public exploit for CVE-2015-3796. PoCs published by Google Security Research.
AI-analyzed exploit summary This exploit targets a stack-based buffer overflow in OS X Libc's TRE regex engine when processing arbitrary-width hex literals with REG_ENHANCED flag. The PoC crashes grep by overflowing a 32-byte buffer with a long hex string, leading to a DoS condition.
Description
The TRE library in Libc in Apple iOS before 8.4.1 and OS X before 10.10.5 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted regular expression, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-3797 and CVE-2015-3798.
Exploits (1)
This exploit targets a stack-based buffer overflow in OS X Libc's TRE regex engine when processing arbitrary-width hex literals with REG_ENHANCED flag. The PoC crashes grep by overflowing a 32-byte buffer with a long hex string, leading to a DoS condition.