Description
PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the [: and \\ substrings in character classes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.
Published: 2015-12-02
Score: 9.8 Critical
EPSS: 2.9% Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2015-8272 PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the [: and \\ substrings in character classes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-2943-1 PCRE vulnerabilities
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Fedoraproject Fedora
Pcre Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library
Php Php
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T08:13:32.878Z

Reserved: 2015-12-01T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-8390

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Status : Modified

Published: 2015-12-02T01:59:14.370

Modified: 2026-05-06T22:30:45.220

Link: CVE-2015-8390

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Severity :

Publid Date: 2015-11-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-8390 - Bugzilla

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