Bug 1287702 (CVE-2015-8394) - CVE-2015-8394 pcre: Integer overflow caused by missing check for certain conditions (8.38/31)
Summary: CVE-2015-8394 pcre: Integer overflow caused by missing check for certain cond...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2015-8394
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1287703 1287704 1287705 1287706
Blocks: 1287727
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Reported: 2015-12-02 14:08 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2019-10-10 10:36 UTC (History)
17 users (show)

Fixed In Version: pcre 8.38
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2016-02-18 21:01:12 UTC
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Description Adam Mariš 2015-12-02 14:08:14 UTC 
It was found that PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the (?(<digits>) and (?(R<digits>) conditions, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (integer overflow) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression.
Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2015-12-02 14:08:59 UTC 
Created pcre tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1287703]
Comment 2 Adam Mariš 2015-12-02 14:09:08 UTC 
Created glib2 tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1287705]
Comment 3 Adam Mariš 2015-12-02 14:09:15 UTC 
Created mingw-pcre tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1287704]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1287706]
Comment 4 Adam Mariš 2015-12-02 15:24:50 UTC 
Corresponds to item 31 in http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre/code/trunk/ChangeLog?view=markup
Comment 5 Petr Pisar 2015-12-02 16:13:50 UTC 
Fixed in upstream with:

commit b35246ac4badf9c2a99b21b214998361babd7afb
Author: ph10 <ph10@2f5784b3-3f2a-0410-8824-cb99058d5e15>
Date:   Mon Aug 10 14:19:06 2015 +0000

    Add missing integer overflow checks.
    
    
    git-svn-id: svn://vcs.exim.org/pcre/code/trunk@1589 2f5784b3-3f2a-0410-8824-
cb99058d5e15
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2016-01-04 19:55:15 UTC 
pcre-8.38-1.fc22 has been pushed to the Fedora 22 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 7 Tomas Hoger 2016-02-18 20:59:14 UTC 
(In reply to Petr Pisar from comment #5)
> commit b35246ac4badf9c2a99b21b214998361babd7afb
> Author: ph10 <ph10@2f5784b3-3f2a-0410-8824-cb99058d5e15>
> Date:   Mon Aug 10 14:19:06 2015 +0000
> 
> Add missing integer overflow checks.

Upstream commit link:

http://vcs.pcre.org/pcre?view=revision&revision=1589
Comment 8 Tomas Hoger 2016-02-18 21:01:12 UTC 
This integer overflow does not seem to have any security impact, similar to bug 1287646 comment 8.
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