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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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2005-4863 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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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-08T00:01:23.333Z

Reserved: 2007-11-14T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2005-4872

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2005-12-31T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-03T01:03:51.193

Link: CVE-2005-4872

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2007-11-07T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2005-4872 - Bugzilla

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