Security Advisory

CVE-2015-8395

7.5

Vulnerability Description

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles certain references, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror, a related issue to CVE-2015-8384 and CVE-2015-8392.
Published Date December 2, 2015
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory