CVE-2015-8384

high

Description

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the /(?J)(?'d'(?'d'\g{d}))/ pattern and related patterns with certain recursive back 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, a related issue to CVE-2015-8392 and CVE-2015-8395.

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-12-02

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High