Security Advisory
CVE-2015-8389
9.8
CRITICAL
Vulnerability Description
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.
Published Date
December 2, 2015
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory