CVE-2015-5073

Name	CVE-2015-5073
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs	790000

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
pcre3 (PTS)	buster	2:8.39-12	fixed
	bullseye	2:8.39-13	fixed
	bookworm, sid	2:8.39-15	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
pcre3	source	jessie	2:8.35-3.3+deb8u1
pcre3	source	(unstable)	2:8.35-7			790000

Notes

[wheezy] - pcre3 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[squeeze] - pcre3 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1651
Fixed by: http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1571 (8.38)
Introduced in http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=454 (8.00)
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/26/1