CVE-2005-4872 Vulnerability Details

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CVE-2005-4872 Metadata Quick Info

CVE Published: 14/11/2007 | CVE Updated: 08/08/2024 | CVE Year: 2005
Source: redhat | Vendor: n/a | Product: n/a
Status : PUBLISHED

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CVE-2005-4872 Description

Perl-Compatible Regular Expression (PCRE) library before 6.2 does not properly count the number of named capturing subpatterns, which allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via a regular expression with a large number of named subpatterns, which triggers a buffer overflow. NOTE: this issue was originally subsumed by CVE-2006-7224, but that CVE has been REJECTED and split.

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CVSS Version: 3.1 | Base Score: n/a
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Source: NVD (National Vulnerability Database).