Security Advisory
CVE-2015-8386
9.8
CRITICAL
Vulnerability Description
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.
Published Date
December 2, 2015
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory