A heap buffer overflow flaw was found in the regcomp() function of Henry Spencer's regular expression library. An attacker able to make an application process a specially crafted regular expression pattern with the regcomp() function could cause that application to crash and possibly execute arbitrary code.
Find out more about CVE-2015-2305 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
| Base Score | 5.1 |
|---|---|
| Base Metrics | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| Access Vector | Network |
| Access Complexity | High |
| Authentication | None |
| Confidentiality Impact | Partial |
| Integrity Impact | Partial |
| Availability Impact | Partial |
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| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (php54-php) | RHSA-2015:1066 | 2015-06-04 |
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (php54-php) | RHSA-2015:1066 | 2015-06-04 |
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 (php55-php) | RHSA-2015:1053 | 2015-06-04 |
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (php55-php) | RHSA-2015:1053 | 2015-06-04 |
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux | rh-php56-php | Not affected |
| Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux | rh-mariadb100-mariadb | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux | mysql55-mysql | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Software Collections 1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux | mariadb55-mariadb | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | php | Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | mesa-private-llvm | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | mariadb | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | mesa-private-llvm | Not affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | mysql | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | php | Fix deferred |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | php53 | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | mysql | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | mysql55-mysql | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | mysql51-mysql | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 | php | Will not fix |
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