CVE-2015-8390: pcre: uninitialized memory read triggered by malformed posix character class (8.38/22)

Severity: Critical

CVSS Score: 9.8

PCRE before 8.38 mishandles the [: and \\ substrings in character classes, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (uninitialized memory read) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror.