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CVE-2015-8393

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

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2015-8393
Phase Assigned(20151201)

Description

pcregrep in PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the -q option for binary files, which might allow remote attackers to obtain sensitive information via a crafted file, as demonstrated by a CGI script that sends stdout data to a client.

References

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