PCRE before 8.38 mishandles certain repeated conditional...
High severity
Unreviewed
Published
May 14, 2022
to the GitHub Advisory Database
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Updated Feb 24, 2023
Description
Published by the National Vulnerability Database
Dec 2, 2015
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database
May 14, 2022
Last updated
Feb 24, 2023
PCRE before 8.38 mishandles certain repeated conditional groups, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (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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