Vulnerability Report

CVE-2015-8382

Title: Pcre Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2015-8382.

CWE Category CWE-119
Published Date Dec 02, 2015
Modified Date Jun 17, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 6.4 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
4.07%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2015-8382: The match function in pcre_exec.c in PCRE before 8.37 mishandles the /(?:((abcd))|(((?:(?:(?:(?:abc|(?:abcdef))))b)abcdefghi)abc)|((*ACCEPT)))/ pattern and related patterns involving (*ACCEPT), which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from process memory or cause a denial of service (partially initialized memory and application crash) via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror, aka ZDI-CAN-2547.

Impacted Vendors

P
pcre 1

Reference Links

http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c351b47ce85a3a147cfa801fa9f0149ab4160834 http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/pcre_exec.c?r1=1502&r2=1510 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/04/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76157 https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128 https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1537 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1187225 http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c351b47ce85a3a147cfa801fa9f0149ab4160834 http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/pcre_exec.c?r1=1502&r2=1510 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/04/3 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/11/29/1 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/76157 https://bto.bluecoat.com/security-advisory/sa128 https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1537 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1187225
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.4
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2015-8382 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.