| Name | CVE-2015-3217 |
| 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_])?)+)+$/. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 787641 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| pcre3 (PTS) | jessie | 2:8.35-3.3+deb8u4 | vulnerable |
| stretch | 2:8.39-3 | fixed |
| buster | 2:8.39-12 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2:8.39-13 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2:8.39-15 | fixed |
| sid | 2:8.39-15.1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| pcre3 | source | (unstable) | 2:8.38-1 | | | 787641 |
Notes
[jessie] - pcre3 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[wheezy] - pcre3 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[squeeze] - pcre3 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1638
Upstream fix: http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1566
More information: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1228283#c2