Security Advisory

CVE-2015-8394

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-12-02 00:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 08:13:32
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the (?(<digits>) and (?(R<digits>) conditions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.