CVE-2017-16231

CVSS 5.5 MEDIUMEPSS 0.5%CWE-119

Vexday Risk Score

13Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Track

No exploitation signal → monitor

CVSS 5.5EPSS 0.5%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

17 Mar 2019Published on NVD

Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.

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

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

n/a · n/a

References

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/150897/PCRE-8.41-Buffer-Overflow.html https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2047 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