PCRE before 8.36 mishandles the /(((a\2)|(a*)\g<-1>))*/ pattern and related patterns with certain internal recursive back references, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) 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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2015-12-02T01:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T05:10:16.164Z

Reserved: 2015-03-18T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-2327

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-12-02T01:59:00.113

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:27:13.450

Link: CVE-2015-2327

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2014-07-11T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-2327 - Bugzilla