Security Advisory

CVE-2015-8385

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-12-02 01:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 08:13:32
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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.