Data Handling in PCRE - CVE-2015-2328

 

Data Handling in PCRE - CVE-2015-2328

Published: March 28, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU87892
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-2328
CWE-ID: CWE-19
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to PCRE mishandles the /((?(R)a|(?1)))+/ pattern and related patterns with certain recursion. A remote attacker can cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression.


Affected software

PCRE
IBM Operations Analytics Predictive Insights
IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager (GKLM)
IBM Intelligent Operations Center
WebSphere Remote Server
IBM Security Verify Governance
IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager
IBM Cloud Application Performance Management (APM)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS
Db2 Big SQL
IBM OpenPages with Watson
dashDB Local
Storage Protect Server
IBM Cloud Pak System
pcre (Red Hat package)
IBM DB2 LUW

How to mitigate CVE-2015-2328

Install updates from vendor's website.

PCRE - update to 8.36
Db2 Big SQL - update to 7.6.2
dashDB Local - update to 11.5.9.0
IBM Cloud Pak System - addressed in versions 2.3.4.1, 2.3.5.0
IBM Tivoli Business Service Manager - update to 6.2.0.5.4
IBM Cloud Application Performance Management (APM) - update to 8.1.4.0.15
Storage Protect Server - update to 8.1.22
pcre (Red Hat package) - update to 8.32-15.el7_2.1
IBM DB2 LUW - addressed in versions 10.5 FP11, 11.1.4 FP7, 11.5.0, 11.5.8

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