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Vulnerability details: VCID-4kkz-3bys-aaae
Vulnerability ID VCID-4kkz-3bys-aaae
Aliases CVE-2015-8384
Summary PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the /(?J)(?'d'(?'d'\g{d}))/ pattern and related patterns with certain recursive back references, 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, a related issue to CVE-2015-8392 and CVE-2015-8395.
Status Published
Exploitability 0.5
Weighted Severity 8.0
Risk 4.0
Affected and Fixed Packages Package Details
Weaknesses (2)
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
CWE-122 Heap-based Buffer Overflow
System Score Found at
generic_textual Low http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-8384.html
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rhbs high https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1287623
generic_textual Low https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8384
cvssv2 7.5 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8384
generic_textual Medium https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2943-1
generic_textual Low http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup
generic_textual Low http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1
Reference id Reference type URL
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2015/CVE-2015-8384.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2750.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:1132
https://access.redhat.com/hydra/rest/securitydata/cve/CVE-2015-8384.json
https://api.first.org/data/v1/epss?cve=CVE-2015-8384
https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8384
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2943-1
http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1
1287623 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1287623
cpe:2.3:a:pcre:perl_compatible_regular_expression_library:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/search/results?adv_search=true&isCpeNameSearch=true&query=cpe:2.3:a:pcre:perl_compatible_regular_expression_library:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
CVE-2015-8384 https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8384
RHSA-2016:2750 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2750
USN-2943-1 https://usn.ubuntu.com/2943-1/
No exploits are available.
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P Found at https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8384
Exploitability (E) Access Vector (AV) Access Complexity (AC) Authentication (Au) Confidentiality Impact (C) Integrity Impact (I) Availability Impact (A)

high

functional

unproven

proof_of_concept

not_defined

local

adjacent_network

network

high

medium

low

multiple

single

none

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete

none

partial

complete
Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)
Percentile 0.68962
EPSS Score 0.00669
Published At March 28, 2025, 12:55 p.m.
Date Actor Action Source VulnerableCode Version
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