CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-8388

7.5 HIGH Published 2015-12-02 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
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, CWE-185

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• oracle linux 7 • pcre perl compatible regular expression library (<= 8.37)

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
  • CWE-185 Incorrect Regular Expression weakness

References