PCRE before 8.38 mishandles (?123) subroutine calls and related subroutine calls, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of…

Description

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles (?123) subroutine calls and related subroutine calls, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

3.6% · top 10% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.3.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-190 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-190 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (8)

• [oss-security] 20151128 Re: Heap Overflow in PCRE (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_transferred
• 82990 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_transferred
• FEDORA-2015-eb896290d3 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
• https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128 (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
• GLSA-201607-02 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_transferred
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230216-0002/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 08:13 UTC.