cve/2015/CVE-2015-8386.md

### [CVE-2015-8386](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-8386)
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### 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

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