CVE-2015-8387 (GCVE-0-2015-8387)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-12-02 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:13
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
PCRE before 8.38 mishandles (?123) subroutine calls and related subroutine calls, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.
Severity
7.3 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
8 references
Date Public
2015-11-23 00:00
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