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CVE-2015-8392
UNKNOWN · CVSS n/a
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2015-12-02T01:59:16.230 · Last modified 2026-06-17T00:34:26.773

Summary

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles certain instances of the (?| substring, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unintended recursion and 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-2015-8384 and CVE-2015-8395.

Affected products

pcre — perl_compatible_regular_expression_library

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References

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