CVE - CVE-2015-8392

CVE-ID
CVE-2015-8392	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
PCRE before 8.38 mishandles certain instances of the (?\| substring, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unintended recursion and 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-2015-8384 and CVE-2015-8395.
References
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CONFIRM:http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup CONFIRM:https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128 GENTOO:GLSA-201607-02 URL:https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02 MLIST:[oss-security] 20151128 Re: Heap Overflow in PCRE URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1 REDHAT:RHSA-2016:1132 URL:https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132 REDHAT:RHSA-2016:2750 URL:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20151201	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20151201)
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Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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