CVE-2015-3217 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2015-3217

PCRE 7.8 and 8.32 through 8.37, and PCRE2 10.10 mishandle...

Vulnerability Description

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_])?)+)+$/.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

pcre2, pcre, powerkvm
Vulnerable Versions:
10.10, 7.8, 8.32, 8.33, 8.34, 8.35, 8.36, 8.37, 2.1, 3.1

Timeline

Official Publish: December 13th, 2016
Last Modified: August 6th, 2024
Added to House: July 19th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.