{"id":"CVE-2015-2325","details":"The compile_branch function in PCRE before 8.37 allows context-dependent attackers to compile incorrect code, cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds heap read and crash), or possibly have other unspecified impact via a regular expression with a group containing a forward reference repeated a large number of times within a repeated outer group that has a zero minimum quantifier.","modified":"2026-04-10T03:46:14.228734Z","published":"2020-01-14T17:15:12Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2015:1273-1","SUSE-SU-2016:2971-1","SUSE-SU-2016:3161-1","SUSE-SU-2017:2699-1","SUSE-SU-2017:2700-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:10277-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:10290-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:10344-1","openSUSE-SU-2024:10447-1"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00014.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1591"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://fortiguard.com/zeroday/FG-VD-15-015"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://www.pcre.org/original/changelog.txt"},{"type":"ARTICLE","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-05/msg00014.html"},{"type":"EVIDENCE","url":"https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1591"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1591"}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}