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CVE-2015-8386

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the interaction of lookbehind assertions and mutually recursive subpatterns, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of ser…

Impact

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the interaction of lookbehind assertions and mutually recursive subpatterns, 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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
PcrePerl Compatible Regular Expression Library
through 8.37
FedoraprojectFedora
Version 22
OracleLinux
Version 7
PhpPhp
from 5.5.0 before 5.5.32
from 5.6.0 before 5.6.18
from 7.0.0 before 7.0.3

Weakness classification

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