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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2015-8389

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CVE-2015-8389

pcre: infinite recursion in JIT compiler when processing certain patterns (8.38/21)

Published Modified CWE 119, 185
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 Hat4.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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

Description

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 11pcre32:8.38-1
debian 12pcre32:8.38-1
debian 8pcre32:8.35-3.3+deb8u2
echopcre32:8.38-1
ubuntu 15.10pcre32:8.35-7.1ubuntu1.3

References

All 12 references

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