CVE-2015-8392

CVSS V2 High 7.5 CVSS V3 None

Description

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.

Overview

CVE ID
CVE-2015-8392

Assigner
cve@mitre.org

Vulnerability Status
Modified

Published Version
2015-12-02T01:59:16

Last Modified Date
2018-01-05T02:30:20

Weakness Enumerations

CWE	URL
CWE-119	http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/119.html

CPE Configuration (Product)

CPE	Vulnerable	Operator	Version Start	Version End
cpe:2.3:a:pcre:perl_compatible_regular_expression_library::::::::	1	OR		8.37

CVSS Version 2

Version
2.0

Vector String
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Access Vector
NETWORK

Access Compatibility
LOW

Authentication
NONE

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL

Integrity Impact
PARTIAL

Availability Impact
PARTIAL

Base Score
7.5

Severity
HIGH

Exploitability Score
10

Impact Score
6.4

References

Reference URL	Reference Tags
http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup	Release Notes Vendor Advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1	Mailing List Third Party Advisory
https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128	Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html

Sources

Source Name	Source URL
NIST	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8392
MITRE	https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8392

History

Created	Old Value	New Value	Data Type	Notes
2022-05-10 18:52:49				Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 07:20:32	2015-12-02T01:59Z	2015-12-02T01:59:16	CVE Published Date	updated
2022-12-02 07:20:32		2018-01-05T02:30:20	CVE Modified Date	updated
2022-12-02 07:20:32		Modified	Vulnerability Status	updated