CVE-2015-8380 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2015-8380?

CVE-2015-8380 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 2 Dec 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-8380?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Pcre Perl Compatible Regular Expression Library.

How do I fix CVE-2015-8380?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2015-8380 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-8380 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8380, GHSA-67r8-54m7-f6x4, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-8380.