{
  "public_date" : "2017-11-01T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "pcre: self-recursive call in match() in pcre_exec.c leads to denial of service",
    "id" : "1700392",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1700392"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "draft"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-770",
  "details" : [ "In PCRE 8.41, after compiling, a pcretest load test PoC produces a crash overflow in the function match() in pcre_exec.c because of a self-recursive call. NOTE: third parties dispute the relevance of this report, noting that there are options that can be used to limit the amount of stack that is used" ],
  "statement" : "Red Hat Product Security determined that this flaw was not a security vulnerability. See the Bugzilla link for more details.",
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    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "pcre",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "chromium-browser",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "firefox",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "glib2",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "pcre",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "thunderbird",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "glib2",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "pcre",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "virtuoso-opensource",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "mingw-pcre",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "pcre",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat JBoss Core Services",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "pcre",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_core_services:1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "httpd",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "httpd",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "httpd",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_web_server:1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 1",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "pcre",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_web_server:1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Web Server 2",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "httpd",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:jboss_enterprise_web_server:2"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Software Collections",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "rh-mariadb100-mariadb",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_software_collections:3"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Software Collections",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "rh-mariadb101-mariadb",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_software_collections:3"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Software Collections",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "rh-php70-php",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_software_collections:3"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-16231\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-16231" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2017-16231",
  "csaw" : false
}