Description
Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.2 does not properly count the number of named capturing subpatterns, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a regular expression with a large number of named subpatterns, which triggers a buffer overflow. NOTE: this issue was originally subsumed by CVE-2006-7224, but that CVE has been REJECTED and split.
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
EUVD |
EUVD-2005-4863 | Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.2 does not properly count the number of named capturing subpatterns, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a regular expression with a large number of named subpatterns, which triggers a buffer overflow. NOTE: this issue was originally subsumed by CVE-2006-7224, but that CVE has been REJECTED and split. |
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History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-08T00:01:23.333Z
Reserved: 2007-11-14T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2005-4872
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Status : Modified
Published: 2005-12-31T05:00:00.000
Modified: 2026-04-16T00:27:16.627
Link: CVE-2005-4872
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Weaknesses
EUVD