CVE-2015-8394 describes an integer overflow vulnerability in PCRE before version 8.38, affecting products like PHP and Konqueror, due to mishandling of specific regular expression conditions. This critical vulnerability, with a CVSS score of 9.8, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service and potentially other unspecified impacts through crafted regular expressions. Despite its high severity and ease of exploitation (network attack, low complexity), there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 8.37CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:pcre:perl_compatible_regular_expression_library:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 5.5.0, < 5.5.32CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 5.6.0, < 5.6.18CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 7.0.0, < 7.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:php:php:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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