{"id":"CVE-2005-4872","details":"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but that CVE has been REJECTED and split.","modified":"2026-01-27T04:06:23.688211Z","published":"2005-12-31T05:00:00Z","withdrawn":"2026-01-27T04:06:23.688211Z","references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/27582"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/27773"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/27869"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/28658"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:030"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_62_pcre.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-01/msg00006.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2007-006.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2007-493.htm"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.pcre.org/changelog.txt"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-1052.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26462"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11615"}],"schema_version":"1.7.3"}