Ubuntu.comUB:CVE-2015-8383CVE-2015-8383
9.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.5 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.05 Low
EPSS
Percentile
92.7%
PCRE before 8.38 mishandles certain repeated conditional groups, 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.
Bugs
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| tyhicks | Issue affects PCRE3 only Marking ‘low’ since it requires PCRE to operate on untrusted regular expressions which is not very likely Per Debian, vulnerable code introduced in 8.34 |
| mdeslaur | 0001-Fix-buffer-overflow-for-repeated-conditional-when-re.patch in jessie |
References
Related
9.8 High
CVSS3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
7.5 High
CVSS2
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
0.05 Low
EPSS
Percentile
92.7%