CVE-2015-8385

critical

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.

References

Advisories
More

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html

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

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

https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128

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

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85572

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1023886

http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup

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

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-1025.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2015-12-02

Updated: 2025-04-12

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.06642