CVE-2015-8386 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
7.5%
top 8.17%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedDec 2
Latest updateMay 13
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9
Affected Packages3 packages
Also affects: Fedora 22
🔴Vulnerability Details
3📋Vendor Advisories
3💬Community
5Bugzilla
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Bugzilla▶
CVE-2015-8386 mingw-pcre: pcre: Buffer overflow caused by lookbehind assertion [fedora-all]↗2015-12-02
Bugzilla
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