{"id":"CVE-2015-8389","details":"PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the /(?:|a|){100}x/ pattern and related patterns, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.","modified":"2026-01-27T04:15:13.479346Z","published":"2015-12-02T01:59:13Z","withdrawn":"2026-01-27T04:15:13.479346Z","related":["SUSE-SU-2016:2971-1","SUSE-SU-2016:3161-1","SUSE-SU-2017:2699-1","SUSE-SU-2017:2700-1"],"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/174931.html"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup"},{"type":"ARTICLE","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/82990"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://h20566.www2.hpe.com/portal/site/hpsc/public/kb/docDisplay?docId=emr_na-c05240731"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-02"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230216-0002/"}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}