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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2015-8386

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CVE-2015-8386

pcre: Buffer overflow caused by lookbehind assertion (8.38/6)

Published Modified CWE 119
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat2.6AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD. Rated lower by Oracle (high), Amazon (medium), Red Hat (low), Ubuntu (low).

Description

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the interaction of lookbehind assertions and mutually recursive subpatterns, 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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
amazon linux 1glib2, glib2-debuginfo, glib2-devel and 2 more2.36.3-5.25.amzn1
debian 11pcre32:8.38-1
debian 12pcre32:8.38-1
debian 8pcre32:8.35-3.3+deb8u2
echopcre32:8.38-1
Oracle Linux 7pcre, pcre-devel, pcre-static and 1 more8.32-15.el7_2.1
Red Hatglib2, glib2-devel, glib2-doc and 10 moreno fix listed
seal Red Hat 7glib2, pcre, seal-glib2 and 1 more2.56.1-7.el7+sp999 and 1 more
ubuntu 14.04pcre31:8.31-2ubuntu2.2
ubuntu 14.04-ESMpcre31:8.31-2ubuntu2.2
ubuntu 15.10pcre32:8.35-7.1ubuntu1.3
Show all 33 entries from 11 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
amazon linux 1glib22.36.3-5.25.amzn1
amazon linux 1glib2-debuginfo2.36.3-5.25.amzn1
amazon linux 1glib2-devel2.36.3-5.25.amzn1
amazon linux 1glib2-doc2.36.3-5.25.amzn1
amazon linux 1glib2-fam2.36.3-5.25.amzn1
debian 11pcre32:8.38-1
debian 12pcre32:8.38-1
debian 8pcre32:8.35-3.3+deb8u2
echopcre32:8.38-1
Oracle Linux 7pcre8.32-15.el7_2.1
Oracle Linux 7pcre-devel8.32-15.el7_2.1
Oracle Linux 7pcre-static8.32-15.el7_2.1
Oracle Linux 7pcre-tools8.32-15.el7_2.1
Red Hatglib2no fix listed
Red Hatglib2-develno fix listed
Red Hatglib2-docno fix listed
Red Hatglib2-famno fix listed
Red Hatglib2-staticno fix listed
Red Hatglib2-testsno fix listed
Red Hatjbcs-httpd24no fix listed
Red Hatjbcs-httpd24-runtimeno fix listed
Red Hatpcreno fix listed
Red Hatpcre-develno fix listed
Red Hatpcre-staticno fix listed
Red Hatvirtuoso-opensourceno fix listed
Red Hatvirtuoso-opensource-utilsno fix listed
seal Red Hat 7glib22.56.1-7.el7+sp999
seal Red Hat 7pcre8.32-17.el7+sp999
seal Red Hat 7seal-glib22.56.1-7.el7+sp999
seal Red Hat 7seal-pcre8.32-17.el7+sp999
ubuntu 14.04pcre31:8.31-2ubuntu2.2
ubuntu 14.04-ESMpcre31:8.31-2ubuntu2.2
ubuntu 15.10pcre32:8.35-7.1ubuntu1.3

References

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