CVE-2005-4872

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2007-11-07
Bugzilla:
383361: CVE-2005-4872 pcre incorrect memory requirement computation

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

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.

Find out more about CVE-2005-4872 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (pcre) RHSA-2007:1052 2007-11-10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (pcre) RHSA-2007:1052 2007-11-10

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