CVE-2017-16231: pcre

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2017-16231 is a medium (CVSS 5.5) vulnerability in pcre. EPSS estimates a 0.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 44.9% of scored vulnerabilities. 2 public exploits are recorded.

Timeline

1. 17-03-2019
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 05-08-2024
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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

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