CVE-2015-8380 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/173700.html http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77695 https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/29-Heap-Overflow-in-PCRE.html https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128 https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1637 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02