Buffer overflow in Pcre Perl_compatible_regular_expression_library

CVE-2015-8381

The compile_regex function in pcre_compile.c in PCRE before 8.38 and pcre2_compile.c in PCRE2 before 10.2x mishandles the /(?J:(?|(:(?|(?'R')(\k'R')|((?'R')))H'Rk'Rf)|s(?'R'))))/ and /(?J:(?|(:(?|(?'R')(\z(?|(?'R')(\k'R')|((?'R')))k'R')|((…

Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow

EPSS: 0.058 (90.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

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