CVE-2015-8385
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Dec 2, 2015
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Dec 1, 2015
Description
PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the /(?|(\k'Pm')|(?'Pm'))/ pattern and related patterns with certain forward references, 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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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
- 85572vdb-entry
- RHSA-2016:1132vendor-advisory
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1023886
- RHSA-2016:1025vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2016:2750vendor-advisory
- https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128
- http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup
- GLSA-201607-02vendor-advisory
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