7.5 High
CVSS2
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack 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
0.025 Low
EPSS
Percentile
90.3%
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.
Author | Note |
---|---|
tyhicks | Issue affects PCRE3 only Marking ‘low’ since it requires PCRE to operate on untrusted regular expressions which is not very likely |
mdeslaur | introduced in 8.34 0001-Hack-in-yet-other-patch-for-a-bug-in-size-computatio.patch in jessie |