7.5
CVSSv2

CVE-2015-3798

Published: 17/08/2015 Updated: 24/12/2016
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 6.4 | Exploitability Score: 10
VMScore: 755
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Vulnerability Summary

The TRE library in Libc in Apple iOS prior to 8.4.1 and OS X prior to 10.10.5 allows context-dependent malicious users to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (memory corruption and application crash) via a crafted regular expression, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-3796 and CVE-2015-3797.

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Exploits

Source: codegooglecom/p/google-security-research/issues/detail?id=429 The OS X regex engine function tre_tnfa_run_parallel contains the following code: int tbytes; if (!match_tags) num_tags = 0; else num_tags = tnfa->num_tags; { int rbytes, pbytes, total_bytes; char *tmp_buf; /* Compute the lengt ...