CVE-2015-8385Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library

Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
5.1%
top 10.11%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedDec 2
Latest updateMay 13

Description

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the /(?|(\k'Pm')|(?'Pm'))/ pattern and related patterns with certain forward references, 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.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:P/I:P/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 6.4

Affected Packages2 packages

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-9pjx-2pvv-2f38: PCRE before 82022-05-13
CVEList
CVE-2015-8385: PCRE before 82015-12-02
OSV
CVE-2015-8385: PCRE before 82015-12-02

📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
PCRE vulnerabilities2016-03-29
Red Hat
pcre: buffer overflow caused by named forward reference to duplicate group number (8.38/30)2015-11-23
Debian
CVE-2015-8385: pcre3 - PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the /(?|(\k'Pm')|(?'Pm'))/ pattern and related patte...2015

💬Community

5
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-8385 mingw-pcre: pcre: Buffer overflow caused by forward reference by name to certain group [epel-7]2015-12-02
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-8385 glib2: pcre: Buffer overflow caused by forward reference by name to certain group [fedora-all]2015-12-02
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-8385 mingw-pcre: pcre: Buffer overflow caused by forward reference by name to certain group [fedora-all]2015-12-02
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-8385 pcre: buffer overflow caused by named forward reference to duplicate group number (8.38/30)2015-12-02
Bugzilla
CVE-2015-8385 pcre: Buffer overflow caused by forward reference by name to certain group [fedora-all]2015-12-02
CVE-2015-8385 — HIGH severity | cvebase