CVE-2015-8392
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2015-12-02 01:00
Modified
2024-08-06 08:13
Severity ?
Summary
PCRE before 8.38 mishandles certain instances of the (?| substring, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unintended recursion and buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror, a related issue to CVE-2015-8384 and CVE-2015-8395.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html
cve@mitre.orghttp://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markupRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132
cve@mitre.orghttps://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128Third Party Advisory
cve@mitre.orghttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02
Impacted products
n/an/a
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