DEBIAN-CVE-2005-4872

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CVE-2005-4872
Published: 31 Dec 2005, 05:00
Last modified:28 Apr 2026, 20:08

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
minimal
0/100
CVSS Score
No data
EPSS Score
No data
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

31 Dec 2005, 05:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
28 Apr 2026, 20:08
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.

Affected Systems

  • debian•pcre3

    < 6.2-1 | < 6.2-1

References (1)