UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2326

    Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2326

    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2326

    Published: 1 Apr 2015Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2015-2326

    Summary:

    Details: The pcre_compile2 function in PCRE before 8.37 allows context-dependent attackers to compile incorrect code and cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds read) via regular expression with a group containing both a forward referencing subroutine call and a recursive back reference, as demonstrated by "((?+1)(\1))/".

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2326, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2694-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2943-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-2326

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: pcre3

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/pcre3@1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1

    Affected versions

    1:8.31-2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2326 | CVE-DB