CVE-2015-2305
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.
- EPSS
- 8.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 95% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-190
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- opensuse:opensuse
- php:php
- rxspencer_project:rxspencer
References
- http://blog.clamav.net/2015/04/clamav-0987-has-been-released.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2015/Sep/msg00008.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00005.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-05/msg00026.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-04/msg00002.html