Uncontrolled Recursion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package pcre3  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-PCRE3-580031
  • published11 Jul 2017
  • disclosed11 Jul 2017

Introduced: 11 Jul 2017

CVE-2017-11164  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-674  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pcre3 package and not the pcre3 package as distributed by Ubuntu.

In PCRE 8.41, the OP_KETRMAX feature in the match function in pcre_exec.c allows stack exhaustion (uncontrolled recursion) when processing a crafted regular expression.