CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8380
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-12-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
The pcre_exec function in pcre_exec.c in PCRE before 8.38 mishandles a // pattern with a \01 string, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.
Affected configurations
• pcre perl compatible regular expression library (<= 8.37)
• fedoraproject fedora 22
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/173700.html Third Party Advisory
- http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup Exploit
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1 Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77695 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/29-Heap-Overflow-in-PCRE.html Third Party Advisory
- https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1637 Exploit
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02 security.gentoo.org
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/173700.html Third Party Advisory
- http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup Exploit
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1 Exploit
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77695 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/29-Heap-Overflow-in-PCRE.html Third Party Advisory
- https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1637 Exploit
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02 security.gentoo.org