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.
CVSS v3 Base Score
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Affected Packages
| Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux 1 | glib2 | 2023-06-27 | ALAS-2023-1775 | Fixed |
| Amazon Linux 2 - Core | glib2 | 2023-06-27 | ALAS2-2023-2107 | Fixed |
| Amazon Linux 2023 | glib2 | Not Affected | ||
| Amazon Linux 1 | pcre | 2023-06-08 | ALAS-2023-1767 | Fixed |
| Amazon Linux 2 - Core | pcre | 2023-06-07 | ALAS2-2023-2082 | Fixed |
| Amazon Linux 2023 | pcre | Not Affected |
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 |