Use of Uninitialized Resource Affecting pcre-debuginfo package, versions <0:8.32-17.amzn2.0.3


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.66% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN2-PCREDEBUGINFO-5671967
  • published8 Jun 2023
  • disclosed2 Dec 2015

Introduced: 2 Dec 2015

CVE-2015-8390  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-908  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 pcre-debuginfo to version 0:8.32-17.amzn2.0.3 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2023-2082.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pcre-debuginfo package and not the pcre-debuginfo package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 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.

CVSS Base Scores

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