CVE-2015-8392

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles certain instances of the (?| substring, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (unintended recursion and buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror, a related issue to CVE-2015-8384 and CVE-2015-8395.

• CWE-119

• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html
• http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markupRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132
• https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128Third Party Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html
• http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markupRelease Notes, Vendor Advisory
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132
• https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128Third Party Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02

Published

Dec 2, 2015

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Modified

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