Out-of-Bounds The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package pcre3  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-PCRE3-345289
  • published2 Dec 2015
  • disclosed2 Dec 2015

Introduced: 2 Dec 2015

CVE-2015-8391  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pcre3 package and not the pcre3 package as distributed by Debian.

The pcre_compile function in pcre_compile.c in PCRE before 8.38 mishandles certain [: nesting, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.