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CVE-2005-2491

Published: 8/22/2005 Last updated: 8/7/2024 Reserved: 8/8/2005

Integer overflow in pcre_compile.c in Perl Compatible Regular Expressions (PCRE) before 6.2, as used in multiple products such as Python, Ethereal, and PHP, allows attackers to execute arbitrary code via quantifier values in regular expressions, which leads to a heap-based buffer overflow.

CNA assigner: redhat (53f830b8-0a3f-465b-8143-3b8a9948e749) Requested by: n/a

Opam packages affected (6)

conf-libpcre conf-libpcre2-8 conf-mingw-w64-pcre2-i686 conf-mingw-w64-pcre2-x86_64 conf-mingw-w64-pcre-i686 conf-mingw-w64-pcre-x86_64

Products affected (1)

Product Vendor Version
n/a n/a 2.21.19

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