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CVE-2015-8392
Published: Dec 2, 2015
Modified: Aug 6, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
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.
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n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
[oss-security] 20151128 Re: Heap Overflow in PCRE
mailing-list
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RHSA-2016:1132
vendor-advisory
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RHSA-2016:2750
vendor-advisory
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https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128
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http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup
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GLSA-201607-02
vendor-advisory
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