CVE-2015-8390

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the [: and \\ substrings in character classes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.

CVSS v3.0 9.8 CRITICAL
CVSS v2.0 7.5 HIGH

9.8^/10

CVSS v3.0 : CRITICAL

V3 Legend

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

7.5^/10

CVSS v2.0 : HIGH

V2 Legend

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

Exploitability : 10.0 / Impact : 6.4

Access Vector NETWORK

Access Complexity LOW

Authentication NONE

Confidentiality Impact PARTIAL

Integrity Impact PARTIAL

Availability Impact PARTIAL

References

Link	Resource
http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup	Release Notes Vendor Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731	Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82990	Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174931.html	Third Party Advisory
https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128	Permissions Required Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02	Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230216-0002/

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

cpe:2.3:a:pcre:perl_compatible_regular_expression_library:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 (hide)

cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:22:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 3 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:php:php::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:php:php::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:php:php::::::::

Information

Published : 2015-12-01 17:59

Updated : 2023-02-16 06:15

NVD link : CVE-2015-8390

Mitre link : CVE-2015-8390

JSON object : View

CWE

CWE-908

Use of Uninitialized Resource

Products Affected

php

fedoraproject

fedora

pcre

perl_compatible_regular_expression_library

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