CVE-2005-4872 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2005-4872 at MITRE

Description

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
CVSS detail	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	4.3
Vector	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Medium
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Partial

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 325921 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2007:062, published Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SA:2008:004, published Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 03:04:09 2013
CVE page last modified: Mon Oct 6 18:14:44 2025