CVE-2017-16231 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Pcre
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.1%
top 74.53%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedMar 21
Latest updateMay 14
Description
In PCRE 8.41, after compiling, a pcretest load test PoC produces a crash overflow in the function match() in pcre_exec.c because of a self-recursive call. NOTE: third parties dispute the relevance of this report, noting that there are options that can be used to limit the amount of stack that is used
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6
Affected Packages2 packages
🔴Vulnerability Details
2📋Vendor Advisories
2💬Community
4Bugzilla▶
CVE-2017-16231 pcre: self-recursive call in match() in pcre_exec.c leads to denial of service↗2019-04-16
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2017-16231 mingw-pcre: pcre: self-recursive call in match() in pcre_exec.c leads to denial of service [fedora-28]↗2019-04-16
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2017-16231 mingw-pcre: pcre: self-recursive call in match() in pcre_exec.c leads to denial of service [fedora-29]↗2019-04-16
Bugzilla▶
CVE-2017-16231 mingw-pcre: pcre: self-recursive call in match() in pcre_exec.c leads to denial of service [epel-7]↗2019-04-16