CVE-2015-3217: ibm powerkvm

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2015-3217 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in ibm powerkvm. EPSS estimates a 6.17% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93.4% of scored vulnerabilities. 1 public exploit is recorded.

Timeline

1. 13-12-2016
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 06-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

PCRE 7.8 and 8.32 through 8.37, and PCRE2 10.10 mishandle group empty matches, which might allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by /^(?:(?(1)\\.|([^\\\\W_])?)+)+$/.

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferThe product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary.