Detections
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CVE-2016-1283
critical
Description
The pcre_compile2 function in pcre_compile.c in PCRE 8.38 mishandles the /((?:F?+(?:^(?(R)a+\"){99}-))(?J)(?'R'(?'R'<((?'RR'(?'R'\){97)?J)?J)(?'R'(?'R'\){99|(:(?|(?'R')(\k'R')|((?'R')))H'R'R)(H'R))))))/ pattern and related patterns with named subgroups, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based 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://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2017-14
https://www.tenable.com/security/tns-2016-18
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02
https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132
http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2016&m=slackware-security.343110
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/79825
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178955.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-March/178193.html