| Name | CVE-2015-8384 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| pcre3 (PTS) | bullseye | 2:8.39-13 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2:8.39-15 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| pcre3 | source | squeeze | (not affected) | | | |
| pcre3 | source | wheezy | (not affected) | | | |
| pcre3 | source | jessie | 2:8.35-3.3+deb8u1 | | | |
| pcre3 | source | (unstable) | 2:8.35-7.2 | | | |
Notes
[wheezy] - pcre3 <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[squeeze] - pcre3 <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1636
related issue to CVE-2015-8392 and CVE-2015-8395
Fixed in 8.38
Fixed by http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1558
Same fixing commit as CVE-2015-3210 but different issues