CVE-2015-8394

Description

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the (?() and (?(R) 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.

Patch Available

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Fix without upgrading

Score

9.8

Severity

Critical

Ecosystem

RPM

Publish Date

December 1, 2015

Modified Date

April 9, 2026

Score Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Versions