CVE-2005-4872

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.2 does not properly count the number of named capturing subpatterns, which allows context-dependent…

published November 14, 2007

CVSS
—
EPSS
2%
Percentile
83.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02321 · 83.2th percentile
Published
2007-11-14T21:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 NOV 21:00Z
    Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.2 does not properly count the number of named capturing subpatterns, which allows context-dependent…
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