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CVE-2015-8380

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2015-12-02 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-119

Description

The pcre_exec function in pcre_exec.c in PCRE before 8.38 mishandles a // pattern with a \01 string, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 22
• PCRE Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library: through 8.37

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/173700.html
• http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77695
• https://blog.fuzzing-project.org/29-Heap-Overflow-in-PCRE.html
• https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128
• https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1637
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-December/173700.html
• http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/77695

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