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LIN8-2204 : Security Advisory - pcre - CVE-2015-8391

Created: Dec 14, 2015    Updated: Dec 3, 2018
Resolved Date: Dec 23, 2015
Previous ID: LIN7-5302
Found In Version: 8.0
Fix Version: 8.0.0.1
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 8
Component/s: Userspace

Description

The pcre_compile function in pcre_compile.c in PCRE before 8.38 mishandles certain [: nesting, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-8391

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