Field Assessment
AI analysis pending.
CVE
CVE-2015-5073
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.1
EPSS
7.67%
Original Filing — NVD Description
Heap-based buffer overflow in the find_fixedlength function in pcre_compile.c in PCRE before 8.38 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or obtain sensitive information from heap memory and possibly bypass the ASLR protection mechanism via a crafted regular expression with an excess closing parenthesis.