CVE-2015-2305

CVE-2015-2305
MEDIUM 6.8

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 8.88 % · percentile 95 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
mitre
NVD status
Modified

Description

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-190 — Integer Overflow or Wraparound

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 6.8AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:PNVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
affected n/a

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD