CVE-2015-8388
Published: 1 December 2015
PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the /(?=di(?<=(?1))|(?=(.))))/ pattern and related patterns with an unmatched closing parenthesis, 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.
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| tyhicks |
Issue affects PCRE3 only Marking 'low' since it requires PCRE to operate on untrusted regular expressions which is not very likely Fix for CVE-2015-5073 also fixes this issue |
| mdeslaur |
was supposed to be fixed in wily (2:8.35-7ubuntu2) but got reverted in (2:8.35-7ubuntu5) by mistake CVE-2015-2325_CVE-2015-2326_CVE-2015-3210_CVE-2015-5073.patch in jessie |
Priority
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
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pcre2
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
precise |
Does not exist
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| trusty |
Does not exist
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|
| upstream |
Not vulnerable
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| vivid |
Does not exist
|
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| wily |
Does not exist
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pcre3
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
precise |
Released
(8.12-4ubuntu0.1)
|
| trusty |
Released
(1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1)
|
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| upstream |
Released
(2:8.35-7)
|
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| vivid |
Released
(2:8.35-3.3ubuntu1.1)
|
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| wily |
Released
(2:8.35-7.1ubuntu1.3)
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Patches:
upstream: http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1571 |
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