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CVE-2015-8389

CRITICAL

9.8

Description

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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 Score9.8

SeverityCRITICAL

CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack VectorNETWORK

ComplexityLOW

Privileges RequiredNONE

User InteractionNONE

Published12/2/2015

Last Modified4/12/2025

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

fedoraproject:fedorapcre:perl_compatible_regular_expression_libraryphp:php

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-119CWE-185

References

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174931.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82990(cve@mitre.org)

https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128(cve@mitre.org)

https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731(cve@mitre.org)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02(cve@mitre.org)

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230216-0002/(cve@mitre.org)

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174931.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82990(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230216-0002/(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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