CVE-2005-4872
EPSS 1.5%
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.
How to fix CVE-2005-4872
To remediate CVE-2005-4872, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/pcre3—upgrade to 6.2-1 or later
Is CVE-2005-4872 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 1.5%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 6.2-1