CVE-2005-4872
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Nov 14, 2007
- Updated
- Aug 8, 2024
- Reserved
- Nov 14, 2007
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.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-493.htm
- MDVSA-2008:030vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SA:2008:004vendor-advisory
- 28658third-party-advisory
- 27773third-party-advisory
- 26462vdb-entry
- RHSA-2007:1052vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SA:2007:062vendor-advisory
- http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt
- 27869third-party-advisory
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11615vdb-entrysignature
- 27582third-party-advisory
- http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2007-006.html
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