debian · CVE-2015-8380

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Priority: unimportant Published: Updated: Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:16:07 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2015-8380 unimportant priority: Debian including 2 source packages (pcre2, pcre3), 7 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 7.

Description:

The pcre_exec function in pcre_exec.c in PCRE before 8.38 mishandles a // pattern with a \01 string, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.

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