PCRE 7.8 and 8.32 through 8.37, and PCRE2 10.10 mishandle group empty matches, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by /^(?:(?(1)\\.|([^\\\\W_])?)+)+$/.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T05:39:31.985Z
Reserved: 2015-04-10T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2015-3217

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2016-12-13T16:59:02.220
Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837
Link: CVE-2015-3217
