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Critical
CVE-2015-8383
PCRE before 8.38 mishandles certain repeated conditional groups, which allows...
Vulnerability Description
PCRE before 8.38 mishandles certain repeated conditional groups, 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.
Impact Analysis
Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.
Remediation
Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.
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Credits & Attribution
No credits recorded in the NVD database.
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174931.html
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731
- https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128
- http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230216-0002/
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Affected Vendor
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View all reports →Affected Software
perl compatible regular expression library, fedora, php
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 22, 5.5.0, 5.6.0, 7.0.0
Timeline
Official Publish:
December 2nd, 2015
Last Modified:
August 6th, 2024
Added to House:
July 19th, 2026
CVSS Vectors
V3:
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses (CWE)
No CWE data available
MITRE ATT&CK TTPs
No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.