MGASA-2015-0267

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    MGASA-2015-0267

    Published: 5 Jul 2015Last Modified: 16 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-5073

    Summary: Updated pcre package fixes security vulnerability

    Details: PCRE library is prone to a vulnerability which leads to Heap Overflow. During subpattern calculation of a malformed regular expression, an offset that is used as an array index is fully controlled and can be large enough so that unexpected heap memory regions are accessed (CVE-2015-5073).

    References: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0267.html, https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16217, http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/26/3

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: pcre

    Purl: pkg:rpm/mageia/pcre?arch=source&distro=mageia-5

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -8.37-2.1.mga5

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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    Integrity
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