Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-1283

Title: Php Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-1283.

CWE Category CWE-119
Published Date Jan 03, 2016
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 9.8 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
7.79%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-1283: The pcre_compile2 function in pcre_compile.c in PCRE 8.38 mishandles the /((?:F?+(?:^(?(R)a+\"){99}-))(?J)(?'R'(?'R'<((?'RR'(?'R'\){97)?J)?J)(?'R'(?'R'\){99|(:(?|(?'R')(\k'R')|((?'R')))H'R'R)(H'R))))))/ pattern and related patterns with named subgroups, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.

Impacted Vendors

P
pcre 1
P
php_group 1
P
perl 1
P
php 1

Reference Links

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178193.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178955.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79825 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034555 http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.343110 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132 https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128 https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1767 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02 https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-18 https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-14 http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178193.html http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178955.html http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79825 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034555 http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.343110 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132 https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128 https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1767 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02 https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-18 https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-14
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity CRITICAL
9.8
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity HIGH
7.5
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2016-1283 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

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:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.