CVE-2015-8395

NameCVE-2015-8395
DescriptionPCRE 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.
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Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
pcre3 (PTS)buster2:8.39-12fixed
bullseye2:8.39-13fixed
sid, trixie, bookworm2:8.39-15fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
pcre3sourcesqueeze(not affected)
pcre3sourcewheezy(not affected)
pcre3sourcejessie2:8.35-3.3+deb8u2
pcre3source(unstable)2:8.38-1

Notes

[wheezy] - pcre3 <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[squeeze] - pcre3 <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
Fixed in 8.38
http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1594
related issue to CVE-2015-8384 and CVE-2015-8392
Same fix as used for CVE-2015-8381

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