DEBIAN-CVE-2005-4872

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Source

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-4872

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2005-4872.json

JSON Data

https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2005-4872

Upstream

CVE-2005-4872

Published

2005-12-31T05:00:00Z

Modified

2025-09-19T06:27:54Z

Summary

[none]

Details

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

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2005-4872

Affected packages

Debian:11 / pcre3

Package

Name: pcre3
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/pcre3?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

6.2-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Debian:12 / pcre3

Package

Name: pcre3
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/pcre3?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

6.2-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}