Vulnerability Report

CVE-2005-4872

Title: Pcre Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2005-4872.

CWE Category CWE-119
Published Date Dec 31, 2005
Modified Date Jun 16, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 4.3 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
2.32%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2005-4872: 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.

Impacted Vendors

P
perl 1
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pcre 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2007-006.html http://secunia.com/advisories/27582 http://secunia.com/advisories/27773 http://secunia.com/advisories/27869 http://secunia.com/advisories/28658 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-493.htm http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:030 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_62_pcre.html http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1052.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26462 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11615 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2007-006.html http://secunia.com/advisories/27582 http://secunia.com/advisories/27773 http://secunia.com/advisories/27869 http://secunia.com/advisories/28658 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-493.htm http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:030 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_62_pcre.html http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1052.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26462 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11615
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.3
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2005-4872 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.