CVE-2005-4872

CVSS V2 Medium 4.3 CVSS V3 None
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2005-4872
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2005-12-31T05:00:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2023-02-13T02:16:08
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-119 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/119.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:pcre:pcre:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 6.1
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • MEDIUM
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • PARTIAL
  • Base Score
  • 4.3
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 8.6
  • Impact Score
  • 2.9
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2007-006.html
http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1052.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/27582 Vendor Advisory
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-493.htm
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_62_pcre.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26462
http://secunia.com/advisories/27773 Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/27869 Vendor Advisory
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:030
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/28658 Vendor Advisory
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11615
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-4872
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-4872
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 18:59:49 Added to TrackCVE
2023-02-13 03:01:14 2023-02-13T02:16:08 CVE Modified Date updated
2023-02-13 03:01:15 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. 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. Description updated