CVE-2016-3191

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-3191
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-3191.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-3191
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-03-17T23:59:01.447Z
Modified
2026-04-16T01:39:30.938353404Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The compilebranch function in pcrecompile.c in PCRE 8.x before 8.39 and pcre2_compile.c in PCRE2 before 10.22 mishandles patterns containing an (*ACCEPT) substring in conjunction with nested parentheses, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service (stack-based buffer overflow) via a crafted regular expression, as demonstrated by a JavaScript RegExp object encountered by Konqueror, aka ZDI-CAN-3542.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre:8.00:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.00"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre:8.01:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.01"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre:8.02:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.02"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre:8.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.10"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre:8.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.11"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre:8.12:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.12"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre:8.13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.13"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre:8.20:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.20"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre:8.21:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.21"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre:8.30:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.30"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre:8.31:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.31"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre:8.32:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.32"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre:8.33:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.33"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre:8.34:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.34"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre:8.35:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.35"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre:8.36:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.36"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre:8.37:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.37"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre:8.38:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "8.38"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/pcre2project/pcre2

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/pcre2project/pcre2
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
f88cd81935602b0bce1525735f34e505f0564375
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": "CPE_FIELD",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "10.21"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

pcre2-10.*
pcre2-10.21

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-3191.json"