CVE-2015-8388

Publication date 1 December 2015

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Low

Why this priority?

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.

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Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
pcre2 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 15.10 wily
Fixed 2:8.35-7.1ubuntu1.3
15.04 vivid
Fixed 2:8.35-3.3ubuntu1.1
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1
12.04 LTS precise
Fixed 8.12-4ubuntu0.1

Notes

tyhicks

Issue affects PCRE3 only Marking 'low' since it requires PCRE to operate on untrusted regular expressions which is not very likely Fix for CVE-2015-5073 also fixes this issue

mdeslaur

was supposed to be fixed in wily (2:8.35-7ubuntu2) but got reverted in (2:8.35-7ubuntu5) by mistake CVE-2015-2325_CVE-2015-2326_CVE-2015-3210_CVE-2015-5073.patch in jessie

Patch details

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Package Patch details
pcre3