{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2328","details":"PCRE before 8.36 mishandles the /((?(R)a|(?1)))+/ pattern and related patterns with certain recursion, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.","modified":"2026-02-04T04:37:14.498247Z","published":"2015-12-01T00:00:00Z","related":["USN-2943-1"],"upstream":["CVE-2015-2328"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-2328"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-17252"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-2943-1"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-2328"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"pcre3","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:14.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/pcre3@1:8.31-2ubuntu2.2?arch=source&distro=trusty"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1:8.31-2ubuntu2.2"}]}],"versions":["1:8.31-2","1:8.31-2ubuntu2","1:8.31-2ubuntu2.1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"1:8.31-2ubuntu2.2","binary_name":"libpcre3"},{"binary_version":"1:8.31-2ubuntu2.2","binary_name":"libpcre3-dev"},{"binary_version":"1:8.31-2ubuntu2.2","binary_name":"libpcrecpp0"},{"binary_version":"1:8.31-2ubuntu2.2","binary_name":"pcregrep"}],"availability":"No subscription required"},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2015/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-2328.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}]}