CVE-2015-8385 PUBLISHED

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the /(?|(\k'Pm')|(?'Pm'))/ pattern and related patterns with certain forward 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.

EPSS 5.14% · 89.8th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
5.14%
89.8th percentile

Affected Products

VendorProductVersions
Ubuntu:14.04:LTSpcre30, 1:8.31-2, 1:8.31-2ubuntu2

Timeline

References

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