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CVE-2005-4872
published 2005-12-31

CVE-2005-4872: Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.2 does not properly count the number of named capturing subpatterns, which allows context-dependent…

PriorityP413medium4.3CVSS 2.0
AVNACMAuNCNINAP
EPSS
2.32%
81.6th percentile
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.

Affected

2 ranges
VendorProductVersion rangeFixed in
debianpcre3< pcre3 6.2-1 (bookworm)pcre3 6.2-1 (bookworm)
pcrepcre<= 6.1

CVSS provenance

nvdv2.04.3MEDIUMAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
osv4.3MEDIUM
vendor_debian4.3MEDIUM
vendor_redhat4.3MEDIUM
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