Fluid Attacks Database

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.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected version	Patched versions
debian 11	pcre3	>=0 <2:8.38-1	2:8.38-1
debian 12	pcre3	>=0 <2:8.38-1	2:8.38-1
rpm rhel7	pcre	<0:8.32-15.el7_2.1	0:8.32-15.el7_2.1

Aliases

1. CVE-2015-83852. NVD-2015-83853. OSV-DEBIAN-2015-83854. OSV-2015-83855. SECURITY-TRACKER-CVE-2015-8385

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