PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the interaction of lookbehind assertions and...
Vulnerability Description
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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References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82990
- http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
- http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1023886
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1025.html
- 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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