Detections
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CVE-2015-2328
critical
Description
PCRE before 8.36 mishandles the /((?(R)a|(?1)))+/ pattern and related patterns with certain recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.
References
https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-17252
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2015-2421
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1515
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/74924
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1023886
http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup