CVE-2005-4872
EPSS 1.5%Published: 12/31/2005Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2005-4872
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.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/pcre3from 0, < 6.2-1