CVE-2015-8395

High

Description

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles certain references, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service 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-2015-8392.

SeverityHigh

CVSS7.5

Exploit probability—

ProductPcre Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library

PublishedDec 2, 2015

First seenDec 2, 2015

How to fix

Vendor advisories

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132
security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02

Affected products

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
pcre perl_compatible_regular_expression_library	v ≤ 8.37	—

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