CVE-2005-4872 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2005-4872
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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.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_62_pcre.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA27582 Secunia Advisory: SA27773 Secunia Advisory: SA27869 Secunia Advisory: SA28658 REDHAT http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1052.html MISC http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2007-006.html MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:030 CONFIRM http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-493.htm http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt BID 26462

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