CVE-2015-8386 in PCRE
Summary
PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the interaction of lookbehind assertions and mutually recursive subpatterns, 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.
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Reservation
12/01/2015
Disclosure
12/01/2015
Status
Confirmed
Entries
VulDB provides additional information and datapoints for this CVE:
| ID | Vulnerability | CWE | Exp | Cou | CVE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 79382 | PCRE Lookbehind Assertion memory corruption | 119 | Not defined | Official fix | CVE-2015-8386 |