{"id":"USN-2694-1","summary":"pcre3 vulnerabilities","details":"Michele Spagnuolo discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular\nexpressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications\nusing PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute\narbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. (CVE-2014-8964)\n\nKai Lu discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular\nexpressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications\nusing PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute\narbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and Ubuntu 15.04.\n(CVE-2015-2325, CVE-2015-2326)\n\nWen Guanxing discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular\nexpressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications\nusing PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute\narbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 15.04. (CVE-2015-3210)\n\nIt was discovered that PCRE incorrectly handled certain regular\nexpressions. A remote attacker could use this issue to cause applications\nusing PCRE to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute\narbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and 14.04 LTS.\n(CVE-2015-5073)\n","modified":"2026-04-22T09:14:19.164250Z","published":"2015-07-29T16:36:09Z","related":["UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8964","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2325","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2326","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5073"],"upstream":["CVE-2014-8964","CVE-2015-2325","CVE-2015-2326","CVE-2015-3210","CVE-2015-5073","UBUNTU-CVE-2014-8964","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2325","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2326","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-3210","UBUNTU-CVE-2015-5073"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2694-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-8964"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2325"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2326"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-3210"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-5073"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"pcre3","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/pcre3@1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1"}]}],"versions":["1:8.31-2","1:8.31-2ubuntu2"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1","binary_name":"libpcre3"},{"binary_version":"1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1","binary_name":"libpcrecpp0"},{"binary_version":"1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1","binary_name":"pcregrep"}],"availability":"No subscription required"},"database_specific":{"cves_map":{"cves":[{"severity":[{"score":"low","type":"Ubuntu"}],"id":"CVE-2014-8964"},{"severity":[{"score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","type":"CVSS_V3"},{"score":"low","type":"Ubuntu"}],"id":"CVE-2015-2325"},{"severity":[{"score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H","type":"CVSS_V3"},{"score":"low","type":"Ubuntu"}],"id":"CVE-2015-2326"},{"severity":[{"score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H","type":"CVSS_V3"},{"score":"low","type":"Ubuntu"}],"id":"CVE-2015-5073"}],"ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS"},"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/usn/USN-2694-1.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5"}