PCRE before 8.38 mishandles certain repeated conditional groups, 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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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
EUVD |
EUVD-2015-8265 | PCRE before 8.38 mishandles certain repeated conditional groups, 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. |
Ubuntu USN |
USN-2943-1 | PCRE vulnerabilities |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T08:13:32.594Z
Reserved: 2015-12-01T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2015-8383
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2015-12-02T01:59:07.117
Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837
Link: CVE-2015-8383
OpenCVE Enrichment
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EUVD
Ubuntu USN