CVE-2015-8388

Description

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the /(?=di(?<=(?1))|(?=(.))))/ pattern and related patterns with an unmatched closing parenthesis, 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.

References

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02

https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85576

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1023886

http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1025.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3