Uncontrolled Recursion Affecting pcre3 package, versions *
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.37% (73rd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN10-PCRE3-345502
- published 11 Jul 2017
- disclosed 11 Jul 2017
Introduced: 11 Jul 2017
CVE-2017-11164 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
There is no fixed version for Debian:10
pcre3
.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream pcre3
package and not the pcre3
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:10
relevant fixed versions and status.
In PCRE 8.41, the OP_KETRMAX feature in the match function in pcre_exec.c allows stack exhaustion (uncontrolled recursion) when processing a crafted regular expression.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-11164
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-11164
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772@%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
- http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/07/11/3
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99575
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-11164
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/11/1
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/04/12/1
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf9fa47ab66495c78bb4120b0754dd9531ca2ff0430f6685ac9b07772%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E