Out-of-Bounds Affecting pcre package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-PCRE-10078093
  • published8 May 2025
  • disclosed21 Mar 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 21 Mar 2019

CVE-2017-16231  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for pcre.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. ** DISPUTED ** In PCRE 8.41, after compiling, a pcretest load test PoC produces a crash overflow in the function match() in pcre_exec.c because of a self-recursive call. NOTE: third parties dispute the relevance of this report, noting that there are options that can be used to limit the amount of stack that is used.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1