CVE-2005-4872

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 2
Modified
Published: 14 Nov 2007, 21:00
Last modified:08 Aug 2024, 00:01

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
low
17/100
CVSS Score
4.3 MEDIUM
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
1.49% LOW
1% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

14 Nov 2007, 21:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
08 Aug 2024, 00:01
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 4.3AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 1.49%• Percentile: 81%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-119•Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

    The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

Affected Systems

  • pcre•pcre

    ≤ 6.1

References (13)