Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-5073

Title: Ibm Powerkvm Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-5073.

CWE Category CWE-119
Published Date Dec 13, 2016
Modified Date May 06, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 9.1 CVSS v3.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
7.67%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-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.

Impacted Vendors

P
pcre 1
P
perl 1
I
ibm 1

Reference Links

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1025.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?revision=1609&view=markup http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1571 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1023886 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/26/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/26/3 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75430 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033154 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132 https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1651 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1025.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?revision=1609&view=markup http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1571 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1023886 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/26/1 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/26/3 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/75430 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1033154 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132 https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1651 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02
CVSS v3.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity CRITICAL
9.1
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.4
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-5073 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.