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CVE-2015-8389

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Entered Topic
2016-02-09 php -- multiple vulnerabilities

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2015-8389
Phase Assigned(20151201)

Description

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the /(?:|a|){100}x/ pattern and related patterns, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.

References

Source Reference
MLIST [oss-security] 20151128 Re: Heap Overflow in PCRE
CONFIRM http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup