Out-of-Bounds Affecting pcre package, versions [,8.41]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.11% (46th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PCRE-2319151
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • 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.

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