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CVE-2005-4872

MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3 EPSS 2.32%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2005-12-31 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2005-4872
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
4.3
EPSS
2.32%

Original NVD 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.