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CVE-2015-8389

CVE-2015-8389

EPSS 3.9%
PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the /(?:|a|){100}x/ pattern and related patterns, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.
Affected products
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References
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174931.htmlhttps://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230216-0002/http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markuphttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82990