CVE-2015-8382
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Dec 2, 2015
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Dec 1, 2015
Description
The match function in pcre_exec.c in PCRE before 8.37 mishandles the /(?:((abcd))|(((?:(?:(?:(?:abc|(?:abcdef))))b)abcdefghi)abc)|((*ACCEPT)))/ pattern and related patterns involving (*ACCEPT), which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (partially initialized memory and application crash) via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror, aka ZDI-CAN-2547.
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- [oss-security] 20151128 Re: Heap Overflow in PCREmailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1187225
- 76157vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20150804 Re: CVE Request: Information disclosure in pcremailing-list
- https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1537
- http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c351b47ce85a3a147cfa801fa9f0149ab4160834
- https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128
- http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup
- http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/pcre_exec.c?r1=1502&r2=1510
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