CVE-2015-8389

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2015-11-23
CWE:
CWE-674
Bugzilla:
1287659: CVE-2015-8389 pcre: infinite recursion in JIT compiler when processing certain patterns (8.38/21)

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the /(?:|a|){100}x/ pattern and related patterns, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.

Find out more about CVE-2015-8389 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v2 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

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Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-mariadb101-mariadb Not affected
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux php55-php Not affected
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-php56-php Not affected
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-mariadb100-mariadb Not affected
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux php54-php Not affected
Red Hat JBoss Web Server 3.0 pcre Not affected
Red Hat JBoss EWS 2 httpd Not affected
Red Hat JBoss EWS 1 httpd Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 virtuoso-opensource Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 pcre Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 glib2 Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 pcre Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 glib2 Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 pcre Not affected
Red Hat Directory Server 8 pcre Not affected

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