{"id":"MGASA-2015-0267","summary":"Updated pcre package fixes security vulnerability","details":"PCRE library is prone to a vulnerability which leads to Heap Overflow.\nDuring subpattern calculation of a malformed regular expression, an offset\nthat is used as an array index is fully controlled and can be large enough\nso that unexpected heap memory regions are accessed (CVE-2015-5073).\n","modified":"2026-04-16T06:24:13.578721899Z","published":"2015-07-05T17:22:03Z","upstream":["CVE-2015-5073"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0267.html"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16217"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/26/3"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"pcre","ecosystem":"Mageia:5","purl":"pkg:rpm/mageia/pcre?arch=source&distro=mageia-5"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"8.37-2.1.mga5"}]}],"ecosystem_specific":{"section":"core"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0267.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","credits":[{"name":"Mageia","contact":["https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packages_Security_Team"],"type":"COORDINATOR"}]}