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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2015-8394

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CVE-2015-8394

pcre: Integer overflow caused by missing check for certain conditions (8.38/31)

Published Modified CWE 190
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), Amazon (medium), Ubuntu (low).

Description

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the (?(<digits>) and (?(R<digits>) conditions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer 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 7 more2.36.3-5.26.amzn1 and 1 more
amazon linux 2glib2, glib2-debuginfo, glib2-devel and 9 more2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.6 and 1 more
debian 11pcre32:8.38-1
debian 12pcre32:8.38-1
debian 7pcre3no fix listed
debian 8pcre32:8.35-3.3+deb8u2
echopcre32:8.38-1
ubuntu 12.04pcre38.12-4ubuntu0.2
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 31 entries from 11 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
amazon linux 1glib22.36.3-5.26.amzn1
amazon linux 1glib2-debuginfo2.36.3-5.26.amzn1
amazon linux 1glib2-devel2.36.3-5.26.amzn1
amazon linux 1glib2-doc2.36.3-5.26.amzn1
amazon linux 1glib2-fam2.36.3-5.26.amzn1
amazon linux 1pcre8.21-7.9.amzn1
amazon linux 1pcre-debuginfo8.21-7.9.amzn1
amazon linux 1pcre-devel8.21-7.9.amzn1
amazon linux 1pcre-static8.21-7.9.amzn1
amazon linux 1pcre-tools8.21-7.9.amzn1
amazon linux 2glib22.56.1-9.amzn2.0.6
amazon linux 2glib2-debuginfo2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.6
amazon linux 2glib2-devel2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.6
amazon linux 2glib2-doc2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.6
amazon linux 2glib2-fam2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.6
amazon linux 2glib2-static2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.6
amazon linux 2glib2-tests2.56.1-9.amzn2.0.6
amazon linux 2pcre8.32-17.amzn2.0.3
amazon linux 2pcre-debuginfo8.32-17.amzn2.0.3
amazon linux 2pcre-devel8.32-17.amzn2.0.3
amazon linux 2pcre-static8.32-17.amzn2.0.3
amazon linux 2pcre-tools8.32-17.amzn2.0.3
debian 11pcre32:8.38-1
debian 12pcre32:8.38-1
debian 7pcre3no fix listed
debian 8pcre32:8.35-3.3+deb8u2
echopcre32:8.38-1
ubuntu 12.04pcre38.12-4ubuntu0.2
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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