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CVE-2015-8386 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:9.8 CRITICALVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174931.html	CVE	Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1025.html	CVE	Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html	CVE	Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132	CVE	Third Party Advisory
https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128	CVE	Third Party Advisory
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731	CVE	Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02	CVE	Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230216-0002/	CVE
http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup	CVE	Broken LinkRelease Notes
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1023886	CVE	Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1	CVE	Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html	CVE	Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82990	CVE	Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174931.html	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1025.html	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230216-0002/	[email protected]
http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup	[email protected]	Broken LinkRelease Notes
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1023886	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1	[email protected]	Mailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82990	[email protected]	Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-119	Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
pcre perl compatible regular expression library	<= 8.37
CPE cpe:2.3:a:pcre:perl_compatible_regular_expression_library:::::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.
fedoraproject fedora	22
CPE cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.
oracle linux	7
CPE cpe:2.3:o:oracle:linux:7:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.
php php	>= 5.5.0, < 5.5.32 >= 5.6.0, < 5.6.18 >= 7.0.0, < 7.0.3
CPE cpe:2.3:a:php:php:::::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

18 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
May 6, 2026	Status Change	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Feb 16, 2023	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Aug 16, 2022	Modified Analysis	[email protected]
Dec 27, 2019	CPE Deprecation Remap	[email protected]
Jan 5, 2018	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jul 1, 2017	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Dec 29, 2016	Modified Analysis	[email protected]
Dec 28, 2016	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Dec 15, 2016	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Dec 7, 2016	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 28, 2016	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Oct 4, 2016	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Aug 24, 2016	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Dec 2, 2015	Modified Analysis	[email protected]
Dec 2, 2015	Initial Analysis	[email protected]

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