CRITICALCVSS 9.8

CVE-2015-8383

CVE-2015-8383 updated by NVD

Modified: 2026-09-20
Sources: nvd

Summary

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.

Affected packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected versions	Fixed versions
PHP	php	[object Object], [object Object], [object Object]	—

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-8383

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