CPANSA-Perl6-Pugs-2015-2325-libpcre: Perl6-Pugs vulnerability

Publisher giterlizzi Document category csaf_security_advisory
Initial release date 2020-01-14T00:00:00 Engine CSAF Perl Toolkit 0.26
Current release date 2020-01-14T00:00:00 Build Date
Current version 1 Status final
CVSS v3.1 Base Score 7.8 Severity High
Original language Language en
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Vulnerability Description

The compile_branch function in PCRE before 8.37 allows context-dependent attackers to compile incorrect code, cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read and crash), or possibly have other unspecified impact via a regular expression with a group containing a forward reference repeated a large number of times within a repeated outer group that has a zero minimum quantifier.

Vulnerabilities

CVE-2015-2325

Vulnerability Description

The compile_branch function in PCRE before 8.37 allows context-dependent attackers to compile incorrect code, cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read and crash), or possibly have other unspecified impact via a regular expression with a group containing a forward reference repeated a large number of times within a repeated outer group that has a zero minimum quantifier.

Weakness CWE-125 : Out-of-bounds Read

Product status

Known affected
Product Score
Perl6-Pugs greater than or equal 6.0.12 and less than or equal 6.2.9
CVSS Version CVSS Vector CVSS Base Score CVSS Base Severity
3.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H 7.8 High
2.0 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P 6.8 Medium

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References

Revision history

Version Date of the revision Summary of the revision
1 Tue Jan 14 00:00:00 2020 First release

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