PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the /(?:|a|){100}x/ pattern and related patterns, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) 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: 2015-12-02T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T08:13:32.555Z

Reserved: 2015-12-01T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-8389

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2015-12-02T01:59:13.417

Modified: 2023-02-16T14:15:13.627

Link: CVE-2015-8389

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2015-11-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-8389 - Bugzilla