CVE-2015-8383 REJECTED

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles certain repeated conditional groups, 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.

EPSS 2.34% · 84.7th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
2.34%
84.7th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:16.04:LTSpcre30, 2:8.35-7.1ubuntu1, 2:8.38-1ubuntu1
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSpcre30, 1:8.31-2, 1:8.31-2ubuntu2

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