CVE-2015-8392 REJECTED

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.

EPSS 4.39% · 88.9th percentile

Risk Scores

EPSS Score
4.39%
88.9th percentile

Affected Products

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

Timeline

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