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    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.

    Published:Nov 23, 2015
    Last Modified:Apr 12, 2025
    EPS:Dec 2, 2015
    EPSS Score:0.04425
    CVSS Score:9.8

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Fedoraproject
    Product
    Fedora
    Vendor
    Pcre
    Product
    Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library
    Vendor
    Php
    Product
    Php

    Exploits

    No exploit reference

    Common Weakness Enumeration

    CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    No CAPEC recorded yet

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    References

    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174931.html
    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
    https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128
    https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02
    https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230216-0002/
    http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174931.html
    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
    https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128
    https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731
    https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02
    https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230216-0002/

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High