CVSS 3.0
9.1 criticalCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:HCVE-2015-5073
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 7.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 94% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-119, CWE-200
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- ibm:powerkvm
- pcre:pcre