CVE-2015-2325 Memory corruption in n/a
Attackers can cause a denial of service via a crafted regular expression in the PCRE library, leading to an out-of-bounds heap read and crash.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2015-2325?
CVE-2015-2325 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Mariadb Mariadb, published on 14 Jan 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
The compile_branch function in PCRE before 8.37 allows context-dependent attackers to compile incorrect code, cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read and crash), or possibly have other unspecified impact via a regular expression with a group containing a forward reference repeated a large number of times within a repeated outer group that has a zero minimum quantifier.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-2325?
It affects 4 products.
Products include Mariadb Mariadb, Opensuse Opensuse, Pcre Pcre, Php Php.
How do I fix CVE-2015-2325?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.
Is CVE-2015-2325 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-2325 in the wild and no public exploit code.
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Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-2325, GHSA-mwr9-2r49-jwhg, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2325.