Heap-based buffer overflow in PCRE 8.34 through 8.37 and PCRE2 10.10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by /^(?P=B)((?P=B)(?J:(?P<B>c)(?P<B>a(?P=B)))>WGXCREDITS)/, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8384.

This update for pcre to version 8.39 (bsc#972127) fixes several issues. If you use pcre extensively please be aware that this is an update to a new version. Please make sure that your software works with the updated version. This version fixes a number of vulnerabilities that affect pcre and applications using the libary when accepting untrusted input as regular expressions or as part thereof. Remote attackers could have caused the application to crash, disclose information or potentially execute arbitrary code. These security issues were fixed :

  - CVE-2014-8964: Heap-based buffer overflow in PCRE     allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (crash) or have other unspecified impact via a crafted     regular expression, related to an assertion that allows     zero repeats (bsc#906574).

  - CVE-2015-2325: Heap buffer overflow in compile_branch()     (bsc#924960).

  - CVE-2015-3210: Heap buffer overflow in pcre_compile2() /     compile_regex() (bsc#933288)

  - CVE-2015-3217: PCRE Library Call Stack Overflow     Vulnerability in match() (bsc#933878).

  - CVE-2015-5073: Library Heap Overflow Vulnerability in     find_fixedlength() (bsc#936227).

  - bsc#942865: heap overflow in compile_regex()

  - CVE-2015-8380: The pcre_exec function in pcre_exec.c     mishandled a // pattern with a \01 string, which allowed     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 (bsc#957566).

  - CVE-2015-2327: PCRE mishandled certain patterns with     internal recursive back references, which allowed remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation     fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a     crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a     JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror     (bsc#957567).

  - bsc#957598: Various security issues

  - CVE-2015-8381: Heap Overflow in compile_regex()     (bsc#957598).

  - CVE-2015-8382: Regular Expression Uninitialized Pointer     Information Disclosure Vulnerability     (ZDI-CAN-2547)(bsc#957598).

  - CVE-2015-8383: Buffer overflow caused by repeated     conditional group(bsc#957598).

  - CVE-2015-8384: Buffer overflow caused by recursive back     reference by name within certain group(bsc#957598).

  - CVE-2015-8385: Buffer overflow caused by forward     reference by name to certain group(bsc#957598).

  - CVE-2015-8386: Buffer overflow caused by lookbehind     assertion(bsc#957598).

  - CVE-2015-8387: Integer overflow in subroutine     calls(bsc#957598).

  - CVE-2015-8388: Buffer overflow caused by certain     patterns with an unmatched closing     parenthesis(bsc#957598).

  - CVE-2015-8389: Infinite recursion in JIT compiler when     processing certain patterns(bsc#957598).

  - CVE-2015-8390: Reading from uninitialized memory when     processing certain patterns(bsc#957598).

  - CVE-2015-8391: Some pathological patterns causes     pcre_compile() to run for a very long time(bsc#957598).

  - CVE-2015-8392: Buffer overflow caused by certain     patterns with duplicated named groups(bsc#957598).

  - CVE-2015-8393: Information leak when running pcgrep -q     on crafted binary(bsc#957598).

  - CVE-2015-8394: Integer overflow caused by missing check     for certain conditions(bsc#957598).

  - CVE-2015-8395: Buffer overflow caused by certain     references(bsc#957598).

  - CVE-2015-2328: PCRE mishandled the /((?(R)a|(?1)))+/     pattern and related patterns with certain recursion,     which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of     service (segmentation fault) or possibly have     unspecified other impact via a crafted regular     expression (bsc#957600).

  - CVE-2016-1283: The pcre_compile2 function in     pcre_compile.c in PCRE mishandled certain patterns with     named subgroups, which allowed remote attackers to cause     a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or     possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted     regular expression (bsc#960837).

  - CVE-2016-3191: The compile_branch function in     pcre_compile.c in pcre2_compile.c mishandled patterns     containing an (*ACCEPT) substring in conjunction with     nested parentheses, which allowed remote attackers to     execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service     (stack-based buffer overflow) via a crafted regular     expression (bsc#971741).

The update package also includes non-security fixes. See advisory for details.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This update for pcre to version 8.39 (bsc#972127) fixes several issues.

If you use pcre extensively please be aware that this is an update to a new version. Please make sure that your software works with the updated version.

This version fixes a number of vulnerabilities that affect pcre and applications using the libary when accepting untrusted input as regular expressions or as part thereof. Remote attackers could have caused the application to crash, disclose information or potentially execute arbitrary code. These security issues were fixed :

  - CVE-2014-8964: Heap-based buffer overflow in PCRE     allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of service     (crash) or have other unspecified impact via a crafted     regular expression, related to an assertion that allows     zero repeats (bsc#906574).

  - CVE-2015-2325: Heap buffer overflow in compile_branch()     (bsc#924960).

  - CVE-2015-3210: Heap buffer overflow in pcre_compile2() /     compile_regex() (bsc#933288)

  - CVE-2015-3217: PCRE Library Call Stack Overflow     Vulnerability in match() (bsc#933878).

  - CVE-2015-5073: Library Heap Overflow Vulnerability in     find_fixedlength() (bsc#936227).

  - bsc#942865: heap overflow in compile_regex()

  - CVE-2015-8380: The pcre_exec function in pcre_exec.c     mishandled a // pattern with a \01 string, which allowed     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 (bsc#957566).

  - CVE-2015-2327: PCRE mishandled certain patterns with     internal recursive back references, which allowed remote     attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation     fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a     crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a     JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror     (bsc#957567).

  - bsc#957598: Various security issues 

  - CVE-2015-8381: Heap Overflow in compile_regex()     (bsc#957598).

  - CVE-2015-8382: Regular Expression Uninitialized Pointer     Information Disclosure Vulnerability     (ZDI-CAN-2547)(bsc#957598).

  - CVE-2015-8383: Buffer overflow caused by repeated     conditional group(bsc#957598).

  - CVE-2015-8384: Buffer overflow caused by recursive back     reference by name within certain group(bsc#957598).

  - CVE-2015-8385: Buffer overflow caused by forward     reference by name to certain group(bsc#957598).

  - CVE-2015-8386: Buffer overflow caused by lookbehind     assertion(bsc#957598).

  - CVE-2015-8387: Integer overflow in subroutine     calls(bsc#957598).

  - CVE-2015-8388: Buffer overflow caused by certain     patterns with an unmatched closing     parenthesis(bsc#957598).

  - CVE-2015-8389: Infinite recursion in JIT compiler when     processing certain patterns(bsc#957598).

  - CVE-2015-8390: Reading from uninitialized memory when     processing certain patterns(bsc#957598).

  - CVE-2015-8391: Some pathological patterns causes     pcre_compile() to run for a very long time(bsc#957598).

  - CVE-2015-8392: Buffer overflow caused by certain     patterns with duplicated named groups(bsc#957598).

  - CVE-2015-8393: Information leak when running pcgrep -q     on crafted binary(bsc#957598).

  - CVE-2015-8394: Integer overflow caused by missing check     for certain conditions(bsc#957598).

  - CVE-2015-8395: Buffer overflow caused by certain     references(bsc#957598).

  - CVE-2015-2328: PCRE mishandled the /((?(R)a|(?1)))+/     pattern and related patterns with certain recursion,     which allowed remote attackers to cause a denial of     service (segmentation fault) or possibly have     unspecified other impact via a crafted regular     expression (bsc#957600).

  - CVE-2016-1283: The pcre_compile2 function in     pcre_compile.c in PCRE mishandled certain patterns with     named subgroups, which allowed remote attackers to cause     a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or     possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted     regular expression (bsc#960837).

  - CVE-2016-3191: The compile_branch function in     pcre_compile.c in pcre2_compile.c mishandled patterns     containing an (*ACCEPT) substring in conjunction with     nested parentheses, which allowed remote attackers to     execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service     (stack-based buffer overflow) via a crafted regular     expression (bsc#971741).

These non-security issues were fixed :

  - JIT compiler improvements

  - performance improvements

  - The Unicode data tables have been updated to Unicode     7.0.0.

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12:Update update project.

This version fixes a number of vulnerabilities that affect pcre and applications using the libary when accepting untrusted input as regular expressions or as part thereof. Remote attackers could have caused the application to crash, disclose information or potentially execute arbitrary code.

  - Update to PCRE 8.39 FATE#320298 boo#972127.

  - CVE-2015-3210: heap buffer overflow in pcre_compile2() /     compile_regex() (boo#933288)

  - CVE-2015-3217: pcre: PCRE Library Call Stack Overflow     Vulnerability in match() (boo#933878)

  - CVE-2015-5073: pcre: Library Heap Overflow Vulnerability     in find_fixedlength() (boo#936227)

  - boo#942865: heap overflow in compile_regex()

  - CVE-2015-8380: pcre: heap overflow in pcre_exec     (boo#957566)

  - boo#957598: various security issues fixed in pcre 8.37     and 8.38 release

  - CVE-2016-1283: pcre: Heap buffer overflow in     pcre_compile2 causes DoS (boo#960837)

  - CVE-2016-3191: pcre: workspace overflow for (*ACCEPT)     with deeply nested parentheses (boo#971741)

It was discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Update to 8.38 and fix various CVE's

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

New pcre packages are available for Slackware 14.1 and -current to fix security issues.

Michele Spagnuolo discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-8964)

Kai Lu discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.04. (CVE-2015-2325, CVE-2015-2326)

Wen Guanxing discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 15.04. (CVE-2015-3210)

It was discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular expressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications using PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2015-5073).

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

This release fixes two heap buffer overflows when compiling certain regular expressions: CVE-2015-3210 and CVE-2015-5073.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Venustech ADLAB reports :

PCRE library is prone to a vulnerability which leads to Heap Overflow.
During the compilation of a malformed regular expression, more data is written on the malloced block than the expected size output by compile_regex.

PCRE library is prone to a vulnerability which leads to Stack Overflow. Without enough bound checking inside match(), the stack memory could be overflowed via a crafted regular expression.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
95915	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : pcre (SUSE-SU-2016:3161-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
95754	openSUSE Security Update : pcre (openSUSE-2016-1448)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
95534	SUSE SLED12 / SLES12 Security Update : pcre (SUSE-SU-2016:2971-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
94906	openSUSE Security Update : pcre (openSUSE-2016-1303)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
90306	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : PCRE vulnerabilities (USN-2943-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
89647	Fedora 23 : mingw-pcre-8.38-1.fc23 (2016-fd1199dbe2)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
89641	Fedora 22 : mingw-pcre-8.38-1.fc22 (2016-f59a8ff5d0)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
87055	Slackware 14.1 / current : pcre (SSA:2015-328-01)	Nessus	Slackware Local Security Checks	critical
85122	Ubuntu 14.04 LTS : PCRE vulnerabilities (USN-2694-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	critical
84843	Fedora 21 : pcre-8.35-12.fc21 (2015-11019)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
84685	Fedora 22 : pcre-8.37-2.fc22 (2015-11027)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	critical
84011	FreeBSD : pcre -- multiple vulnerabilities (e69af246-0ae2-11e5-90e4-d050996490d0)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	critical

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