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