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CVE-2015-8390

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the [: and \\ substrings in character classes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory rea…

Impact

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the [: and \\ substrings in character classes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory read) 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
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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