CVE Catalog

CVE-2017-11164

HighCVSS 7.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

In PCRE 8.41, the OP_KETRMAX feature in the match function in pcre_exec.c allows stack exhaustion (uncontrolled recursion) when processing a crafted regular expression.

Risk Assessment

This can lead to a denial of service (DoS) attack through stack exhaustion and application crash when processing untrusted regular expressions.

Recommendation

Update the PCRE library to a version later than 8.41 that contains the fix, or restrict processing of untrusted regular expressions.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In PCRE 8.41, the OP_KETRMAX feature in the match function in pcre_exec.c allows stack exhaustion (uncontrolled recursion) when processing a crafted regular expression.

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