CVE-2015-8384
EPSS 1.2%Published: 12/2/2015Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8384
Description
PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the /(?J)(?'d'(?'d'\g{d}))/ pattern and related patterns with certain recursive back 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, a related issue to CVE-2015-8392 and CVE-2015-8395.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/pcre3from 0, < 2:8.35-7.2