Your submission was sent successfully! Close

You have successfully unsubscribed! Close

Thank you for signing up for our newsletter!
In these regular emails you will find the latest updates about Ubuntu and upcoming events where you can meet our team.Close

CVE-2015-8395

Published: 1 December 2015

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles certain references, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service 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-2015-8392.

Notes

AuthorNote
tyhicks
Issue affects PCRE3 only
Marking 'low' since it requires PCRE to operate on untrusted regular
expressions which is not very likely
mdeslaur
introduced in 8.34

0001-Hack-in-yet-other-patch-for-a-bug-in-size-computatio.patch
in jessie

Priority

Low

Status

Package Release Status
pcre2
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist

upstream Not vulnerable

vivid Does not exist

wily Does not exist

xenial Not vulnerable

yakkety Not vulnerable

zesty Not vulnerable

pcre3
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
precise Not vulnerable

trusty Not vulnerable

upstream
Released (8.38)
vivid Ignored
(end of life)
wily
Released (2:8.35-7.1ubuntu1.3)
xenial Not vulnerable
(2:8.38-3)
yakkety Not vulnerable
(2:8.38-3)
zesty Not vulnerable
(2:8.38-3)
Patches:
upstream: http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1594