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CVE-2015-8392 Details

Description

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles certain instances of the (?| substring, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unintended recursion and buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror, a related issue to CVE-2015-8384 and CVE-2015-8395.

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CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html CVE
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132 CVE
https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128 CVEThird Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02 CVE
http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup CVERelease NotesVendor Advisory

see all 12 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
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.

Change History

10 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2015-8392
NVD Published Date:
Dec 2, 2015
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2015-8392 Details - Not Deferred