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CVE-2015-8392

N/A
Published: December 2, 2015 at 01:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 12:34 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorPerl Compatible Regular Expression Library

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 4%

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (6)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html
x_refsource_CONFIRMRelease NotesVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup
Mailing Listx_refsource_MLISTThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132
x_refsource_CONFIRMThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
Source: [email protected]
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02

CVSS

7.5HIGH[email protected]
Confidentiality
PARTIAL
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119

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