CVE-2005-4872
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-4872
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2005-4872.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2005-4872
- Downstream
- Withdrawn
- 2026-01-27T04:06:23.688211Z
- Published
- 2005-12-31T05:00:00Z
- Modified
- 2026-01-27T04:06:23.688211Z
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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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.
- References
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- http://secunia.com/advisories/27582
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27773
- http://secunia.com/advisories/27869
- http://secunia.com/advisories/28658
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:030
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_62_pcre.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html
- http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2007-006.html
- http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-493.htm
- http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1052.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26462
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11615