CVE-2017-16231 (GCVE-0-2017-16231)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2019-03-17 16:24
Modified
2024-08-05 20:20
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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
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