CVE-2015-8383 Information

Description

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles certain repeated conditional groups 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.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174931.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132 https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128 https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02