CVE-2015-8389 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2015-8389?

CVE-2015-8389 is a critical denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 2 Dec 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the /(?:|a|){100}x/ pattern and related patterns, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.

Weakness: CWE-185, CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-8389?

It affects 3 products.

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

How do I fix CVE-2015-8389?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2015-8389 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-8389 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2015-8389, GHSA-w4p3-383r-c3gc.