PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the /(?:|a|){100}x/ pattern and related patterns, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.
References
Link | Resource |
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http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174931.html | Third Party Advisory |
http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup | Release Notes Vendor Advisory |
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1 | Mailing List Third Party Advisory |
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82990 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128 | Permissions Required Third Party Advisory |
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731 | Third Party Advisory |
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02 | Third Party Advisory |
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230216-0002/ |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2015-12-02T00:00:00
Updated: 2023-02-16T00:00:00
Reserved: 2015-12-01T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2015-8389
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Modified
Published: 2015-12-02T01:59:13.417
Modified: 2023-02-16T14:15:13.627
Link: CVE-2015-8389
JSON object: View
Redhat Information
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