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CVE-2015-3217

🗓️ 13 Dec 2016 16:59:02Reported by [email protected]Type 
nvd
 nvd🔗 web.nvd.nist.gov👁 18 Views

PCRE and PCRE2 versions 7.8 to 8.37 and 10.10 mishandle group empty matches, leading to denial of service via crafted regular expressions

Related
Detection
Refs
ReporterTitlePublishedViews
Family
IBM Security Bulletins		Security Bulletin: IBM Flex System Chassis Management Module (CMM) is affected by a vulnerabilty in PCRE (CVE-2015-3217)
7 Dec 202322:31
–ibm
IBM Security Bulletins		Security Bulletin: Multiple vulnerabilities in PCRE affect PowerKVM
18 Jun 201801:32
–ibm
Tenable Nessus		CentOS 7 : pcre (CESA-2016:1025)
13 May 201600:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		EulerOS 2.0 SP1 : pcre (EulerOS-SA-2016-1023)
1 May 201700:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		EulerOS Virtualization 3.0.1.0 : pcre (EulerOS-SA-2019-1558)
15 May 201900:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		EulerOS 2.0 SP2 : glib2 (EulerOS-SA-2020-1654)
17 Jun 202000:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : glib2 (EulerOS-SA-2021-1789)
30 Apr 202100:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		F5 Networks BIG-IP : Multiple PCRE vulnerabilities (K20225390)
2 Aug 201600:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		FreeBSD : pcre -- multiple vulnerabilities (e69af246-0ae2-11e5-90e4-d050996490d0)
8 Jun 201500:00
–nessus
Tenable Nessus		MiracleLinux 7 : pcre-8.32-15.el7.1 (AXSA:2016-391:01)
16 Jan 202600:00
–nessus
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NVD
Node
pcrepcre2Match10.10
Node
pcrepcreMatch7.8
OR
pcrepcreMatch8.32
OR
pcrepcreMatch8.33
OR
pcrepcreMatch8.34
OR
pcrepcreMatch8.35
OR
pcrepcreMatch8.36
OR
pcrepcreMatch8.37
Node
ibmpowerkvmMatch2.1
OR
ibmpowerkvmMatch3.1

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06 May 2026 22:30Current
8.2High risk
Vulners AI Score8.2
CVSS 25
CVSS 37.5
EPSS0.00861
CWE-119
pcre 7.8pcre 8.37pcre2 10.10group empty matchesdenial of servicestack-based buffer overflow
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