Out-of-Bounds Affecting pcre3 package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN11-PCRE3-525075
- published 27 Jun 2018
- disclosed 21 Mar 2019
Introduced: 27 Jun 2018
CVE-2017-16231 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:11 pcre3.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply to the upstream pcre3 package.
** 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.