Security Advisory
CVE-2015-8390
9.8
CRITICAL
Vulnerability Description
PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the [: and \\ substrings in character classes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory read) 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