Security Advisory

CVE-2015-8387

7.3
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles (?123) subroutine calls and related subroutine calls, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer 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