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CVE-2015-8390

Public on 2015-12-02
Modified on 2024-02-12
Description

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the [: and \ substrings in character classes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.5
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 glib2 2023-06-21 19:11 ALAS-2023-1775
Amazon Linux 2 - Core glib2 2023-06-21 19:11 ALAS2-2023-2107
Amazon Linux 1 pcre 2023-06-05 16:39 ALAS-2023-1767
Amazon Linux 2 - Core pcre 2023-06-05 16:39 ALAS2-2023-2082

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H