Description
PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the interaction of lookbehind assertions and mutually recursive subpatterns, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
EUVD |
EUVD-2015-8268 | PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the interaction of lookbehind assertions and mutually recursive subpatterns, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror. |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-2943-1 | PCRE vulnerabilities |
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History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T08:13:32.538Z
Reserved: 2015-12-01T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2015-8386
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Status : Modified
Published: 2015-12-02T01:59:10.400
Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220
Link: CVE-2015-8386
OpenCVE Enrichment
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EUVD
Ubuntu USN