CVE-2017-11164 — Uncontrolled Recursion in Pcre

CWE-674 — Uncontrolled Recursion13 documents7 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 70.50%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
PcreDebian Pcre3
Timeline
PublishedJul 11
Latest updateDec 2

Description

In PCRE 8.41, the OP_KETRMAX feature in the match function in pcre_exec.c allows stack exhaustion (uncontrolled recursion) when processing a crafted regular expression.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

▶NVDpcre/pcre8.41
▶debiandebian/pcre3

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-5457-7wx3-gf7j: In PCRE 8↗2022-05-13
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OSV
CVE-2017-11164: In PCRE 8↗2017-07-11
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
pcre: OP_KETRMAX feature in the match function in pcre_exec.c↗2017-07-10
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Debian
CVE-2017-11164: pcre3 - In PCRE 8.41, the OP_KETRMAX feature in the match function in pcre_exec.c allows...↗2017
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🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
Wiz
What Is DevOps Security? Implement, Challenges, Best Practices | Wiz↗2024-12-02
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💬Community

7
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-11164 mingw-pcre: pcre: OP_KETRMAX feature in the match function in pcre_exec.c [fedora-all]↗2017-07-12
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-11164 mingw-glib2: pcre: OP_KETRMAX feature in the match function in pcre_exec.c [epel-7]↗2017-07-12
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-11164 pcre: OP_KETRMAX feature in the match function in pcre_exec.c↗2017-07-12
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-11164 pcre: OP_KETRMAX feature in the match function in pcre_exec.c [fedora-all]↗2017-07-12
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-11164 mingw-pcre: pcre: OP_KETRMAX feature in the match function in pcre_exec.c [epel-7]↗2017-07-12
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