diff --git a/libpcre/.md5sum b/libpcre/.md5sum
index c8296d28..4cd15d70 100644
--- a/libpcre/.md5sum
+++ b/libpcre/.md5sum
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
 45df6737e61738cc8bb061e0b9c0fbb2  01-seven-security-patches.patch
+5222dd119a2cfde15df9ae2583c64698  libpcre-8.37-CVE-2015-5073.patch
 ed91be292cb01d21bc7e526816c26981  pcre-8.37.tar.bz2
diff --git a/libpcre/Pkgfile b/libpcre/Pkgfile
index f0ae5ad8..39934e55 100644
--- a/libpcre/Pkgfile
+++ b/libpcre/Pkgfile
@@ -4,13 +4,17 @@
 
 name=libpcre
 version=8.37
-release=2
+release=3
 source=(ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-$version.tar.bz2 \
-	01-seven-security-patches.patch)
+	01-seven-security-patches.patch \
+	$name-$version-CVE-2015-5073.patch)
 
 build() {
     cd pcre-$version
+
     patch -p1 -i $SRC/01-seven-security-patches.patch
+    patch -p1 -i $SRC/$name-$version-CVE-2015-5073.patch
+
     ./configure --prefix=/usr \
                 --mandir=/usr/man \
                 --enable-utf8 \
diff --git a/libpcre/libpcre-8.37-CVE-2015-5073.patch b/libpcre/libpcre-8.37-CVE-2015-5073.patch
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a97ea392
--- /dev/null
+++ b/libpcre/libpcre-8.37-CVE-2015-5073.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1651
+https://bugs.gentoo.org/553300
+https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1237224
+
+From 354e1f8e921dcb9cf2f3a5eac93cd826d01a7d8a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: ph10 <ph10@2f5784b3-3f2a-0410-8824-cb99058d5e15>
+Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 16:34:53 +0000
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix buffer overflow for forward reference within backward
+ assertion with excess closing parenthesis. Bugzilla 1651.
+MIME-Version: 1.0
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
+Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
+
+This is upstream commit ported to 8.37:
+
+commit 764692f9aea9eab50fdba6cb537441d8b34c6c37
+Author: ph10 <ph10@2f5784b3-3f2a-0410-8824-cb99058d5e15>
+Date:   Tue Jun 23 16:34:53 2015 +0000
+
+    Fix buffer overflow for forward reference within backward assertion with excess
+    closing parenthesis. Bugzilla 1651.
+
+    git-svn-id: svn://vcs.exim.org/pcre/code/trunk@1571 2f5784b3-3f2a-0410-8824-cb99058d5e15
+
+It fixes CVE-2015-5073.
+
+Signed-off-by: Petr Písař <ppisar@redhat.com>
+---
+ pcre_compile.c       | 2 +-
+ testdata/testinput2  | 2 ++
+ testdata/testoutput2 | 3 +++
+ 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/pcre_compile.c b/pcre_compile.c
+index 6f06912..b66b1f6 100644
+--- a/pcre_compile.c
++++ b/pcre_compile.c
+@@ -9392,7 +9392,7 @@ OP_RECURSE that are not fixed length get a diagnosic with a useful offset. The
+ exceptional ones forgo this. We scan the pattern to check that they are fixed
+ length, and set their lengths. */
+ 
+-if (cd->check_lookbehind)
++if (errorcode == 0 && cd->check_lookbehind)
+   {
+   pcre_uchar *cc = (pcre_uchar *)codestart;
+ 
+diff --git a/testdata/testinput2 b/testdata/testinput2
+index 83bb471..5cc9ce6 100644
+--- a/testdata/testinput2
++++ b/testdata/testinput2
+@@ -4154,4 +4154,6 @@ backtracking verbs. --/
+ 
+ "(?J)(?'d'(?'d'\g{d}))"
+ 
++/(?=di(?<=(?1))|(?=(.))))/
++
+ /-- End of testinput2 --/
+diff --git a/testdata/testoutput2 b/testdata/testoutput2
+index 7dff52a..4decb8d 100644
+--- a/testdata/testoutput2
++++ b/testdata/testoutput2
+@@ -14425,4 +14425,7 @@ Failed: lookbehind assertion is not fixed length at offset 17
+ 
+ "(?J)(?'d'(?'d'\g{d}))"
+ 
++/(?=di(?<=(?1))|(?=(.))))/
++Failed: unmatched parentheses at offset 23
++
+ /-- End of testinput2 --/
+-- 
+2.4.3
+