CVE-2017-16231

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2019-03-21 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

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

Affected products

Pcre: 8.41

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/150897/PCRE-8.41-Buffer-Overflow.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Dec/33
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/01/11
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/01/3
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/01/7
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/01/8
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101688
https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2047
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/150897/PCRE-8.41-Buffer-Overflow.html
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Dec/33
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/01/11
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/11/01/3

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