CVE-2005-4872
N/A
Published: November 14, 2007 at 09:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:19 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorPcre
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 2%
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.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (13)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.htmlThird Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/27582Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/27773Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/27869Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/28658x_refsource_CONFIRM
Source: [email protected]
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-493.htmVendor Advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
Source: [email protected]
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:030Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119
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