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.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2015-12-02T01:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-06T08:13:32.883Z
Reserved: 2015-12-01T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2015-8388
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2015-12-02T01:59:12.367
Modified: 2024-11-21T02:38:25.897
Link: CVE-2015-8388
Redhat