UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8388

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the /(?=di(?<=(?1))|(?=(.))))/ pattern and related patterns with an unmatched closing parenthesis, 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.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:14.04:LTS / pcre3

Package

Name: pcre3
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/pcre3@1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1

Affected versions

1:8.*

1:8.31-2

1:8.31-2ubuntu2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "libpcre3",
            "binary_version": "1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpcre3-dev",
            "binary_version": "1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libpcrecpp0",
            "binary_version": "1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "pcregrep",
            "binary_version": "1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}