Out-of-Bounds Affecting pcre3 package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.08% (35th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-PCRE3-345529
- 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:9
pcre3
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pcre3
package and not the pcre3
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:9
relevant fixed versions and status.
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
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-16231
- https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2047
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-16231
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/150897/PCRE-8.41-Buffer-Overflow.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/01/11
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/01/3
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/01/7
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/01/8
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Dec/33
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101688