Published: 02/12/2015 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.4 | Impact Score: 4.9 | Exploitability Score: 10

VMScore: 570

Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

The match function in pcre_exec.c in PCRE prior to 8.37 mishandles the /(?:((abcd))|(((?:(?:(?:(?:abc|(?:abcdef))))b)abcdefghi)abc)|((*ACCEPT)))/ pattern and related patterns involving (*ACCEPT), which allows remote malicious users to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (partially initialized memory and application crash) via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror, aka ZDI-CAN-2547.

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pcre perl compatible regular expression library 8.36

PCRE could be made to crash or run programs if it processed a specially-crafted regular expression ...

Debian Bug report logs - #806467 pcre3: CVE-2015-8380: Heap overflow / invalid write in fuction pcre_exec Package: src:pcre3; Maintainer for src:pcre3 is Matthew Vernon <matthew@debianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2015 18:27:06 UTC Severity: normal Tags: fixed-upstream ...

Debian Bug report logs - #794589 pcre3: CVE-2015-8382: pcre_exec does not fill offsets for certain regexps Package: src:pcre3; Maintainer for src:pcre3 is Matthew Vernon <matthew@debianorg>; Reported by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debianorg> Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 17:57:02 UTC Severity: important Tags: patch, sec ...

The match function in pcre_execc in PCRE before 837 mishandles the /(?:((abcd))|(((?:(?:(?:(?:abc|(?:abcdef))))b)abcdefghi)abc)|((*ACCEPT)))/ pattern and related patterns involving (*ACCEPT), which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (partially initialized memory and application ...

CWE-119 https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1537 http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/pcre_exec.c?r1=1502&r2=1510 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1187225 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/04/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76157 https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128 http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c351b47ce85a3a147cfa801fa9f0149ab4160834 https://usn.ubuntu.com/2943-1/https://nvd.nist.gov https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2015-8382

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