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-DEBIAN9-PCRE3-345501
- 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:9
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:9
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.