Security Advisory
CVE-2015-5073
9.1
CRITICAL
Vulnerability Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the find_fixedlength function in pcre_compile.c in PCRE before 8.38 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or obtain sensitive information from heap memory and possibly bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted regular expression with an excess closing parenthesis.
Published Date
December 13, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory