Release Date: | 2015-11-23 |
PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the interaction of lookbehind assertionsand 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.
See more information about CVE-2015-8386 from MITRE CVE dictionary and NIST NVD
NOTE: The following CVSS v2.0 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
Base Score: | 2.6 | Base Metrics: | AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
Access Vector: | Network | Attack Complexity: | High |
Authentication: | None required | Confidentiality Impact: | None |
Integrity Impact: | None | Availability Impact: | Partial |
Platform | Errata | Release Date |
Oracle Linux version 7 (pcre) | ELSA-2016-1025 | 2016-05-11 |
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