PT-2015-5704
CVE-2015-2305
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Published
2015-03-18
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Updated
2024-06-15
Description by
CVSS 2.0
6.8
MediumMetricsAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
NetBSD versions prior to 6.1.5
Description
The issue is related to an integer overflow in the regcomp implementation in the Henry Spencer BSD regex library, which can lead to a heap-based buffer overflow. This might allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via a large regular expression.
Recommendations
For NetBSD versions prior to 6.1.5, update to version 6.1.5 or later to resolve the issue.
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