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CVE-2015-3210

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 9.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2016-12-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-787

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in PCRE 8.34 through 8.37 and PCRE2 10.10 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by /^(?P=B)((?P=B)(?J:(?P<B>c)(?P<B>a(?P=B)))>WGXCREDITS)/, a different vulnerability than CVE-2015-8384.

Affected products

• Pcre: 8.34, 8.35, 8.36, 8.37
• PCRE2: 10.10

References

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/01/7
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/02/11
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74934
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132
• https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1636
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/06/01/7
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/12/02/11
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74934
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132
• https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1636

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