CVE-2015-8395

PCRE < 8.38 - Denial of Service via Crafted Regular Expression

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles certain references, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service 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-2015-8392.

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02
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
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128

Scores

EPSS 0.0354
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