Buffer Overflow Affecting pcre package, versions [,8.41]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.32% (71st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-PCRE-2319175
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed11 Jul 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 11 Jul 2017

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

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for pcre.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Buffer Overflow. 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.

CVSS Scores

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