CVE-2015-8380

Publication date 1 December 2015

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

The pcre_exec function in pcre_exec.c in PCRE before 8.38 mishandles a // pattern with a \01 string, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
pcre2 17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.10 yakkety
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
15.10 wily Not in release
15.04 vivid Not in release
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release
12.04 LTS precise Not in release
pcre3 17.04 zesty
Not affected
16.10 yakkety
Not affected
16.04 LTS xenial
Not affected
15.10 wily
Fixed 2:8.35-7.1ubuntu1.3
15.04 vivid Ignored end of life
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1:8.31-2ubuntu2.2
12.04 LTS precise
Not affected

Notes

tyhicks

Issue affects PCRE3 only Marking 'low' since it requires PCRE to operate on untrusted regular expressions which is not very likely

mdeslaur

0001-Fix-overflow-when-ovector-has-size-1.patch in jessie

Patch details

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Package Patch details
pcre3