CVE-2015-2305

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

CWE

No CWE identifiers supplied.

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/72611
• http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3195
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/03/11/8
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00002.html
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinjan2016-2867209.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143403519711434&w=2
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1031947
• http://php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00005.html
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2594-1
• https://support.apple.com/HT205267
• http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2572-1
• http://blog.clamav.net/2015/04/clamav-0987-has-been-released.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00026.html
• http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/695940
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00024.html
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/02/07/14
• https://guidovranken.wordpress.com/2015/02/04/full-disclosure-heap-overflow-in-h-spencers-regex-library-on-32-bit-systems/
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1053.html
• http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=143403519711434&w=2
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1066.html

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