CVE-2015-2305 Integer overflow in n/a

What is CVE-2015-2305?

CVE-2015-2305 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 30 Mar 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Integer overflow in the regcomp implementation in the Henry Spencer BSD regex library (aka rxspencer) alpha3.8.g5 on 32-bit platforms, as used in NetBSD through 6.1.5 and other products, might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large regular expression that leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.

Weakness: CWE-190

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-2305?

It affects 5 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Opensuse Opensuse, Php Php, Rxspencer Project Rxspencer.

How do I fix CVE-2015-2305?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2015-2305 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-2305 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-2305, GHSA-qcm7-3c5w-vhg7, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2305.