CVE-2005-4872

MediumCVSS 4.3/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 4.3/10AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Weakness enumeration

CWE-119

Affected software

VendorProductVersions
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References

Timeline

Published
Dec 31, 2005
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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