CVE-2015-8383

 

Published at: - 02-12-2015 02:59

Last modified: - 16-08-2022 03:31

Total changes: - 2

Description

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.

Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

 

Verification logic

 

Reference

• http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup
• [oss-security] 20151128 Re: Heap Overflow in PCRE-Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731
• FEDORA-2015-eb896290d3-Third Party Advisory
• https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128
• GLSA-201607-02-Third Party Advisory
• RHSA-2016:1132-Third Party Advisory
• RHSA-2016:2750-Third Party Advisory

 

Keywords

NVD

 

CVE-2015-8383

 

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Common vulnerabilities & exposures

 

CVSS

 

Common vulnerability scoring system

 

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