CVEs-PoC/2015/CVE-2015-8386.md

CVE-2015-8386

Description

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the interaction of lookbehind assertions and mutually recursive subpatterns, 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.

POC

Reference

• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html

Github

• https://github.com/ARPSyndicate/cvemon
• https://github.com/RedHatSatellite/satellite-host-cve