Out-of-Bounds Affecting pcre3 package, versions <2:8.38-1
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-PCRE3-345381
- published 2 Dec 2015
- disclosed 2 Dec 2015
Introduced: 2 Dec 2015
CVE-2015-8390 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:10
pcre3
to version 2:8.38-1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pcre3
package and not the pcre3
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:10
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-8390
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174931.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02
- https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731
- https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128
- http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82990
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2015-8390
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230216-0002/