CVE-2015-8392
PCRE < 8.38 - Denial of Service via Crafted Regular Expression
Title source: llmDescription
PCRE before 8.38 mishandles certain instances of the (?| substring, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unintended recursion and buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror, a related issue to CVE-2015-8384 and CVE-2015-8395.
References (6)
Core 6
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128
Release Notes, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02
Scores
EPSS
0.0356
EPSS Percentile
87.9%
Details
CWE
CWE-119
Status
published
Products (1)
pcre/perl_compatible_regular_expression_library
< 8.37
Published
Dec 02, 2015
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026