Security Advisory

CVE-2017-16231

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2019-03-17 16:24:52
Last updated 2024-08-05 20:20:05
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

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