CVE - CVE-2005-4872

CVE-ID
CVE-2005-4872	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
Note: References are provided for the convenience of the reader to help distinguish between vulnerabilities. The list is not intended to be complete.
MISC:26462 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26462 MISC:27582 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/27582 MISC:27773 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/27773 MISC:27869 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/27869 MISC:28658 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/28658 MISC:MDVSA-2008:030 URL:~~http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:030~~ (Obsolete source) MISC:RHSA-2007:1052 URL:http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1052.html MISC:SUSE-SA:2007:062 URL:http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_62_pcre.html MISC:SUSE-SA:2008:004 URL:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html MISC:http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2007-006.html URL:http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2007-006.html MISC:http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-493.htm URL:http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-493.htm MISC:http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt URL:http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt MISC:oval:org.mitre.oval:def:11615 URL:https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11615
Assigning CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Date Record Created
20071114	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20071114)
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Comments (Legacy)

Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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