PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the /(?=di(?<=(?1))|(?=(.))))/ pattern and related patterns with an unmatched closing parenthesis, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.
History

Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.09792}

epss

{'score': 0.07456}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2015-12-02T01:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-06T08:13:32.883Z

Reserved: 2015-12-01T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-8388

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2015-12-02T01:59:12.367

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2015-8388

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2015-06-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-8388 - Bugzilla