CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-8389
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2015-12-02
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- 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 /(?:|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.
Affected configurations
• pcre perl compatible regular expression library (<= 8.37)
• fedoraproject fedora 22
• php php (>= 5.5.0 < 5.5.32)
• php php (>= 5.6.0 < 5.6.18)
• php php (>= 7.0.0 < 7.0.3)
Related
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174931.html Third Party Advisory
- http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82990 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128 Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230216-0002/ security.netapp.com
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174931.html Third Party Advisory
- http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82990 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128 Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230216-0002/ security.netapp.com