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Unscored USN-2694-1 5 CVEs

pcre3 vulnerabilities

Published Jul 29, 2015 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

Michele Spagnuolo discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular
expressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications
using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-8964)

Kai Lu discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular
expressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications
using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.04.
(CVE-2015-2325, CVE-2015-2326)

Wen Guanxing discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular
expressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications
using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 15.04. (CVE-2015-3210)

It was discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular
expressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications
using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute
arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and 14.04 LTS.
(CVE-2015-5073)

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 14.04 LTS 14.04:LTS pcre3 1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1

Vulnerabilities 5

  • Unscored —

    Heap-based buffer overflow in PCRE 8.36 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or hav…

  • Unscored —

    The compile_branch function in PCRE before 8.37 allows context-dependent attackers to compile incorrect code, cause a d…

  • Unscored —

    The pcre_compile2 function in PCRE before 8.37 allows context-dependent attackers to compile incorrect code and cause a…

  • Unscored —

    Heap-based buffer overflow in PCRE 8.34 through 8.37 and PCRE2 10.10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code …

  • Unscored —

    Heap-based buffer overflow in the find_fixedlength function in pcre_compile.c in PCRE before 8.38 allows remote attacke…

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8964
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2325
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2326
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-3210
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5073