CVE-2005-4872 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Pcre
Severity
4.3MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
1.5%
top 18.94%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 31
Latest updateMay 1
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.
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 8.6 | Impact: 2.9