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Stack-based Buffer Overflow The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package glib2  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-GLIB2-2834303
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed9 Feb 2016
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Introduced: 9 Feb 2016

CVE-2016-3191  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-121  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:7.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glib2 package and not the glib2 package as distributed by Centos.

The compile_branch function in pcre_compile.c in PCRE 8.x before 8.39 and pcre2_compile.c in PCRE2 before 10.22 mishandles patterns containing an (*ACCEPT) substring in conjunction with nested parentheses, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror, aka ZDI-CAN-3542.