PCRE before 8.36 mishandles the /(((a\2)|(a*)\g<-1>))*/ pattern and related patterns with certain internal recursive back references, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-06T05:10:16.164Z
Reserved: 2015-03-18T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2015-2327

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2015-12-02T01:59:00.113
Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837
Link: CVE-2015-2327
