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CVE-2015-3217
HIGH · CVSS 7.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2016-12-13T16:59:02.220 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:25:33.513

Summary

PCRE 7.8 and 8.32 through 8.37, and PCRE2 10.10 mishandle group empty matches, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by /^(?:(?(1)\\.|([^\\\\W_])?)+)+$/.

Affected products

pcre — pcre2

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References

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