CVE-2015-8384 REJECTED

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the /(?J)(?'d'(?'d'\g{d}))/ pattern and related patterns with certain recursive back references, 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, a related issue to CVE-2015-8392 and CVE-2015-8395.

EPSS 1.19% · 78.7th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
1.19%
78.7th percentile

Affected Products

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

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