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CVE-2015-8384
UNKNOWN · CVSS n/a
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2015-12-02T01:59:08.350 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:34:25.770

Summary

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the /(?J)(?'d'(?'d'\g{d}))/ pattern and related patterns with certain recursive back references, 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, a related issue to CVE-2015-8392 and CVE-2015-8395.

Affected products

pcre — perl_compatible_regular_expression_library

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