Oval Definition:oval:com.ubuntu.xenial:def:20158383000
Revision Date:2015-12-01Version:1
Title:CVE-2015-8383 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) - low.
Description: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.
Family:unixClass:vulnerability
Status:Reference(s):CVE-2015-8383
Platform(s):Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Product(s):
Definition Synopsis
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial) is installed.
  • AND Package Information
  • NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'pcre2' package in xenial is not affected.
  • OR NOT While related to the CVE in some way, the 'pcre3' package in xenial is not affected (note: '2:8.38-3').
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