Improper Data Handling The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package pcre3  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1610-PCRE3-627248
  • published2 Dec 2015
  • disclosed2 Dec 2015

Introduced: 2 Dec 2015

CVE-2015-2328  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-19  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.10.

NVD Description

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

PCRE before 8.36 mishandles the /((?(R)a|(?1)))+/ pattern and related patterns with certain recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.