PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the interaction of lookbehind assertions and mutually recursive subpatterns, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (buffer overflow) 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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T08:13:32.538Z

Reserved: 2015-12-01T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-8386

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2015-12-02T01:59:10.400

Modified: 2025-04-12T10:46:40.837

Link: CVE-2015-8386

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2015-11-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-8386 - Bugzilla