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CVE-2015-8390 (GCVE-0-2015-8390)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-12-02 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 08:13
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2015-11-23 00:00
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