CVE-2015-2305
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.8 · Integer overflow
6.8CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
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.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorNetwork
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
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Exploit probability (EPSS)8%
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://blog.clamav.net/2015/04/clamav-0987-has-been-released.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00005.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00026.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00002.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00024.htmlAdvisory
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143403519711434&w=2Advisory
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/07/14Advisory